"The beginning of love is the will to let those..." - Thomas Merton

🤲 Acceptance

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image”

— Thomas Merton

True love accepts others exactly as they are without twisting.

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