Love

"You are sent here to learn to love and to receive love.   The greatest gift of new love brings is the awakening to the hidden love within.   This makes you independent.   You are now able to come close to the other, not out of need or with the weary apparatus of projection, but out of genuine intimacy, affinity and belonging.   It is a freedom.   Love should make you free.   You become free of the hungry, blistering need with which you continually reach out to scrape affirmation, respect and significance for yourself from things and people outside yourself."  John O' Donahue