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Why the Intention to Love Is Not True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh | #shorts

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    Give up your ideas, your prejudices, because you may already have an idea as how that person can be happy.
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    And you want to impose the idea on him on her.
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    And by doing so, you make him or her suffer.
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    When you don't know, you still believe that you will continue to love him or her.
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    You may be very sincere.
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    You maybe...
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    You may have a lot of love within yourself.
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    But that is not love yet.
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    That is the intention to love, the willingness to love and to make one person happy.
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    That's not love yet.
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    In order to truly love, you have to understand.
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    And that is why if you love someone, you should try to understand him or her deeply.
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    Understanding what?
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    The kind of difficulties that that person has.
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Why the Intention to Love Is Not True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh | #shorts
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