When Mountains Cease to be Mountains: An Interreligious Meditation on the Sanctification of Desire

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What is the relationship of human desire to divine love? Spiritual traditions teach us that human desire achieves its true aim only when elevated into the life of divine love. In this essay, I provide a reading of three sayings from three spiritual traditions - Buddhist, Taoist, and Christian - in order to explore the meaning of this.

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Richard Oxenberg
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