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Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.
Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.
Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
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- Jack Kornfield
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- Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Jack Kornfield: documented birth year 1945; activity date not established. Wikidata Q713049, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713049 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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