Page 91 - DeSales 1977

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oving people means summoning
them forth
with the loudest and most insistent
of calls;
§it means stirring up in them
a mute hidden being
who can’t help leaping at the
sound of our voices—
_a being so new
that even those who carried him
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didn’t know him,
and yet so authentic
they can’t fail to recognize him
once they discover him.
II love includes fatherhood and
motherhood.
o love someone is to bid him to live,
invite him to grow,
ince people don’t have the courage
to mature unless someone has
aith in them,
we have to reach those we meet
at the level where they stopped
developing,
where they were given up as
hopeless,
and so withdrew into themselves
because they were so alone
and no one cared.
They have to feel they’re loved very
deeply and very boldly
before they dare appear humble
and kind, affectionate, sincere
and vulnerable.
Louis Evely

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