" "Gray smiled and basked in his thoughts for a moment. "Nothing is hidden in love. There are no ulterior motives. In a world plagued with selfishness and the suffering it births, vulnerability is very difficult. But that is exactly what love requires—it cannot exist in shadows. That is why your relationships are so shallow and your love is so immature. You put on a mask and present it to the world. Likewise, the world has its own masks. The relationship is artificial and false, with selfishness pulling the strings from behind the scene like a master puppeteer...
"Love is naked and vulnerable. It gets trampled by selfishness again and again. Yet it persists, overcoming death, which cannot hold it. That is its transforming power. Do you realize that in this world it often takes suffering to strip your masks from you? It is often only in the pain of suffering that honesty finally surfaces. Most are surprised at what's in their own heart, but that is where real relationship begins-honesty. When someone sees you for who you are—naked and broken—and still accepts you without trying to twist you to fit their insecurity, then that is love; that is intimacy; that is transforming."
(The Bastard Tree. M.C. Lang, pg 99)
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