"To come to the land of love, you must pass through the pains of death, for to love persons means to die to the need for persons and to be utterly alone...
...At first this will seem unbearable. But it is only because you are unaccustomed to aloneness. If you manage to stay there for a while, the desert will suddenly blossom into love. Your heart will burst into song. And it will be springtime forever; the drug will be out; you're free. Then you will understand what freedom is, what love is, what happiness is, what reality is, what truth is, what God is."
~ Anthony De Mello ~
