but now we can see that there is also a second way in which the person as a unique and individual being always comes into his own, in which the value of his personality is also realised and his personal, specific meaning of life is fulfilled: this is the way of love, or better still, of being loved. This is more or less a passive path, without any striving, without any doing – ‘without doing anything for it’ – in being loved, what someone otherwise had to strive for in his activity or employment now seems to fall into his lap; on this path of being loved he achieves the things he would
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