Most of us try to take from life as much as we can… struggling, in vain, to end a longing that never fails to prove itself endless. To see the truth of this is painful, but it’s also the only way to discover what we’ve really been searching for all along: The only thing on earth that is truly without end is our capacity to give ourselves… to life, to others, and to the Love that binds us together.

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