When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.
True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.
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True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.
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