No amount of knowledge or feeling of unity dispels the essential mysteriousness of the other. For all our talk about bonds, ties that bind, complete understanding, and total communication, there remains an ineradicable strangeness and separateness in love. The more deeply we re-spect, the more we recognize that those we love most will always remain free, full of surprises, inexhaustibly mysterious.
— Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved