In awakened awareness, a channel of communication easily opens because we don't need anything in particular from the other person. Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity. Just as the galaxies gravitationally pull toward each other to explode in cosmic union, the force of love is such that it spends itself entirely. It gives away the store. And it does so for one simple reason; it cannot help it. It has no choice.
— Catherine Ingram, Passionate Presence