All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to… - Barry Long

Your object is to see yourself exactly as you are. Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new: it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.

Reasonable acceptance, our way of living, is imperfect. But God, if God exists, must be perfect and beyond reason.

But in our ignorance we emotionalise joy, beauty and love. We make feelings of them, personal interpretations based on our old emotions. We put our personal past on the present with the result that joy, beauty and love don't seem to last. But it's our emotional substitutes that don't last and we become bored, discontented and unhappy again. The sensation or knowledge of joy, beauty and love is of course still there but it's overwhelmed by these coarser feelings.