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Dr. Thynn: Well, you see, love and hate are not so different. They are two aspects of our discriminating mind, like two sides of the same coin.
Q: But they feel so different.
Dr. Thynn: Yes, initially they are different, but they both arise out of our habit of discrimination, and they both lead to suffering. Whether we love or hate someone is based on our own likes and dislikes. We automatically categorize people according to our own preconceptions. When they meet our ideals and appear to be to our liking, our mind starts to cling to them; and if they should fall into the category of dislike, our minds start to reject them. In this way we end up loving or hating.
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he defeated me, he robbed me:
the hatred of those who harbour
such thoughts is not appeased.
Hatred is never appeased
by hatred in this world,
it is appeased by love.
This is an eternal Law..