We project outwards, on to others and into situations in which we are involved, and in relationships, the very conflicts and tensions that are going on inside us unconsciously, unknown to us – the conflicts and tensions that arise out of our pain and our woundedness, out of consciously long forgotten experiences of feeling unloved, unwanted, neglected or abused. We seek, and we fear love; and yet love draws us on. Love is greater than our own capacity for it. It is the same love; there is only one love, one creative energy. The same love is manifested at different levels of reality.
(Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
