Serious quote, surrealistic -- but REAL -- photo! Martin Voelker, a Real Estate Cafe client who's "for sale by owner" marketing campaign was so good that one well-known traditional listing agency held a staff meeting to review his work, sent in this photo of his daughter. Torn between calling the photo "Love at 1st sight" or "Risking diminution," I almost wore this quote to the party last night and wanted very much to discuss it with friends:
"In order for man to be truly himself, man needs to love another as himself. In order to realize himself, man has to risk the diminution and even the total loss of all his reality, in favor of another, for if any man would save his life he must lose it. We are never fully ourselves until we realize that those we truly love become our "other selves." Seeing this, we are able to grasp that God also loves us as he loves Himself. Without this awareness, there can be no perfect communion."
Thomas Merton, _The New Man_.
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