"This experience of being loved by mother is a passive one. There is nothing I have to do in order to be loved-mother's love is unconditional. All I have to do is to be-to be her child. Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

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"This experience of being loved by mother is a passive one. There is nothing I have to do in order to be loved-mother's love is unconditional. All I have to do is to be-to be her child. Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

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