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From: dbb@fluke.UUCP (Dave Bartley)
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Subject: Re: what is love?
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 11:26:44 EST
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I like Scott Peck's definition the most (from *The Road Less Traveled*)
[from memory, but I this is close, anyway]:

"Love is the will to extend one's self to nurture one's own spiritual
growth or that of another."

He describes 'falling in love', on the other hand, as a collapse of the
boundaries of self rather than an extension of them.

By the way, I highly recommend the book.  It's wonderful.
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