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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Course of Love - Is It a Novel?

People are trying to teach one another things, but with impatience and anger. And so they're terrible ambassadors for their feeling - making a mess of it. The person on the other side is beset by this idea that it's an insult. As we know with children, the only conditions under which any one learns are conditions of incredible sweetness, tenderness, patience. That's how we learn. But the problem is that, you know, the failures of our relationships have made us so anxious that we can't be the teachers we should be....

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