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Humble, The Poet on Being Free of Passion but Full of Love

The Daily Stoic

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The Point of Life Is to Be Free of Passion, but Full of Love

Mark Cerrios says the point of life is to be free of passion, but full of love. I think what he's really saying is that we have these and I refer to it as bootleg love, but we have these misconceptions of what love can actually be. And oftentimes we create the blockages. We're chasing pleasure not to feel good, but to medicate our lack of peace. The work that we have to do is to open the sale.

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