So love is also a reality that relates us to something beyond ourselves. That is the meaning of transcendence. Love gives life. The unloved offspring of every species will die. Love thus relates us to something beyond ourselves. Love, however, is never disembodied, never found or experienced apart from life. Love passes through us. It neither originates nor terminates in us. We receive it, and only having received it are we able to pass it on. Love does not keep to be consumed later as “leftovers”; it cannot be preserved. It must be shared or it will die. So love opens each of us to a
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