A cracked blue-and-white bowl repaired with gold seams, holding green moss and a small yellow flower.

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Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes a paradox: if you keep loving past the point where it hurts, the pain stops standing apart as pain and is absorbed into further love. It is a claim that generous devotion can transform its own cost instead of being defeated by it.

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