I believe that love holds no fear. Fear is a result of making assumptions and expectations, and I believe that love makes no assumptions, and holds no expectations about anyone or anything. Love never takes anything or anyone for granted. Love is unconditional acceptance. Love means that the innermost you is okay. Love prefers the real you, and not the someone who is pretending or wearing masks. And by the same rule, love accepts everyone else as they are. Love doesn’t apply to images, ideals, or our ideas of a person, not even our images of ourselves. Love applies only to the real person above and beyond the images. The joy in love is not in the receiving, but the giving. Just as Einstein said that matter and energy are one, so too I believe that love comprises all that is, binding the very atoms together. For in a world where everything is relative, love itself is the only absolute.
— Robert Peterson, Lessons Out of the Body
