An in love we have the possibility and the need to help each other search. Is this the hidden meaning of the blaze of love, its echo, its teaching? I believe it is. With that echo in mind, we can touch the new sense, practical and full of hope, of sustained love, a purpose that comes not from outworn customs or unrealistic ideals but from our own yearning both for each other and for something within ourselves that is crying to be born.
— Jacob Needleman, A Little Book on Love