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Love vs Fear?

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Layman Pascal
Dec 12, 2020
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I. A Common ‘New Age’ Language Habit

There is a habit of speaking, in certain strains of late 20th & early 21st-century spirituality and “self-help” traditions, that collapses the dynamics of human motivation into two general polarities — often called love and fear. This can be a useful orienting generalization for some people but is it accurate or comp…

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