{"id":5192,"date":"2008-01-21T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/can-you-say-i-will-practise-love\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:01:47","slug":"can-you-say-i-will-practise-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/can-you-say-i-will-practise-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you say, \u2018I will practise love&#039;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Can you say, \u2018I will practise love. I will sit down day after day and think about it. I will practise being kind and gentle and force myself to pay attention to others\u2019? Do you mean to say that you can discipline yourself to love, exercise the will to love? When you exercise discipline and will to love, love goes out of the window. By practising some method or system of loving you may become extraordinarily clever or more kindly or get into a state of non-violence, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with love.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you say, \u2018I will practise love. I will sit down day after day and think about it. I will practise being kind and gentle and force myself to pay attention to others\u2019? Do you mean to say that you can discipline yourself to love, exercise the will to love? When you exercise discipline and will to love, love goes out of the window. By practising some method or system of loving you may become extraordinarily clever or more kindly or get into a state of non-violence, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can you say, \u2018I will practise love&#039;?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can you say, \u2018I will practise love. I will sit down day after day and think about it. I will practise being kind and gentle and force myself to pay attention to others\u2019? 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