Transcending that natural impulse to run away when things get hard, shapes character, deepens our own personality, integrates our personality. It matures us, and it allows us to make sense or to enter into relationship with the suffering in our lives, and it introduces us to the process of self-transcendence. And then out of that comes a different kind of love, a deeper quality of love, a different experience of love than that which we knew at the beginning of the journey of that relationship.
( Finding Oneself 1 Laurence Freeman )
