We are all aware that love is our most natural state of being, but what does it mean to truly love someone? ❤️

According to Thomas Merton, an American mystic 🧙‍♂️ and poet ✒️, the foundation of love is "the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image." He goes on to say that "if in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

What do you think? Does Merton have it right, or is he misguided on this topic? 🤔

Let us hear your thoughts in the comments below. 👇