The Art of Loving

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Once #Paracelsus, a Swiss physician, said:
"He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees... The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love... Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries know nothing about grapes."

How beautiful I relearned the #artofloving today from the #book of #ErichFromm. So what is #love? What is #loving? Four core tenets of love are: care, responsibility, respect, and knowledge. If nothing's less than those, how love is called love?

📍: #freedominstitute

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