The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving. (Emanuel Swedenborg)

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

Emanuel Swedenborg

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