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wrong, and the more we try to sort the problem the more frantic and furious
he gets, hating to be handled, not understanding that were trying to deal
with his discomfort. Frustration mounts, creating its own distress and anger,
which hardly helps hisin fact, compounds it. Too easily inner demons of
self-pity, a sense of failure, inadequacy and helplessness take over. So I
recognize that I really need apatheia in order to love properly. Love requires
a degree of detachment, an ability to let the other person be, to be other,
to be what they are rather than what you want them to be. (292-293).
The practice of apatheia might just be a way of laying down our lives for the sake of
another.