“We may come to know our friends and lovers over years of conversation and experience, but we may eventually realize that it is enough to love them without knowing what they are all about.  We may not approve of everything they do, and we may not appreciate their eccentric ways, but still we know and appreciate them.  We have faith that in the dimness of our ignorance we have the opportunity to give ourselves more fully to their reality.  Unconditional love means that we don’t love on the condition that we understand.”

Thomas Moore, Original Self | ★ Featured on this book list.