Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.
All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss
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