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When we know that love is truly the only thing that matters, we are free to simply love. We can let go of what doesn’t matter. We can stop worrying about what other people think. We can let go of fear and our attachment to the results. We realize that the only way to “fail” is not to try … and that even when we do, we’re intended to learn from it and go again.

Still, to love well is the work of a lifetime. It seems we can always purify our love just a little bit more. We don’t purify it once and for all. As we advance in love school, so does the purification.

But there is ever deepening clarity in the process. There is abiding peace. And there is true joy.… More

If the only way to be happy is to be true to yourself, what we really want to talk about is getting to know the self! And when we say it that way, we recognize the enormity of the task. “The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,” said the Greek philosopher Plato. “Know thyself,” is accepted as the corner stone on which the temples of philosophy were erected; and without the corner stone, all other knowing crumbles. It is the quest that has traveled with man from the launching of a soul until the present day. It has, from the beginning, transcended continent, race, culture, and tradition. But if the sages of every age have sought the knowing, only for the next generation to seek it again, how can we have the audacity to take on the task. How can we not?

The knowing is not knowledge that can be passed on. The knowing is uncovered only in the process of seeking it. No man has rights to it; yet all men have the right to pursue it. And so, we must seek it.

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