d. THE DIVORCE OF THE GIFTED CHILD AND THE GIVING ADULT Spirituality is ultimately about self-transcendence, altruism, and selflessness. Religion has always made this its centerpiece. To be religiously mature was to be a person who freely gives his or her life away. As Jesus put it: “No greater love has one than to lay down one’s life for a friend.”17 While that is obviously true, the way it has been preached has sometimes been problematic. What looks like selflessness can actually be self-serving and manipulative and what looks like a free gift can have strings attached. True selflessness is
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