A More Exciting Life: A guide to greater freedom, spontaneity and enjoyment by The School of Life

Author:The School of Life
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The School of Life Press
Published: 2020-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

In another story (in Matthew, chapter 8), Jesus is approached by a man affected with leprosy. He’s in a terrible state. But Jesus isn’t shocked and does not shy away from him; instead he reaches out his hand and touches the man. Despite the man’s horrendous appearance, here is someone (in Jesus’s eyes) that is deserving of closeness and kindness. In a similar vein, at other times, Jesus argues that tax collectors, thieves and adulterers are not to be thought of as outside the circle of love.

Many centuries after Jesus’s death, the medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) defined what Jesus was getting at in this way of talking about love: the person who truly understands love could love anyone. In other words, true love is not specific in its target; it doesn’t fixate on particular qualities; it is open to all of humanity, even (and in a way especially) its less appealing examples.

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