Dante, awakening, and erotic love
Dante's Divine Comedy
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The Unity of Love
As Dante ascends through the heavens he meets other lovers and again they're quite surprising often because with a moral understanding they might be thought to be condemned as lovers. But actually what Dante realizes is that these lovers had virtues that enable them to see the unity of love right across the cosmos. These intimations of this spiritual perception of love are actually all around us if we can allow them to draw us, says author David Walliams.
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