Love is learned by experience. I often think of it as osmosis - absorbing from the environment. In other words, if we want to love, we must begin by being regularly in the presence of love to let it have its effect on us.
Understanding this has many implications for the relationships we form, the communities to which we pledge our allegiance, how we spend our time... And, in particular, it explains how we are to think of spiritual disciplines and exercises: they are there to help put us in God...
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