"When our loneliness drives us away from ourselves and into the arms of companions in life, we are, in fact, driving ourselves in excruciating relationships, tiring friendships, and suffocating embraces...No friend or lover, no husband or wife, no community or commune will be able to put to rest our deepest cravings for unity and wholeness. And by burdening others with these divine expectations, of which we ourselves are often only partially aware, we might inhibit the expression of free friendship and love and evoke instead feelings of inadequacy and weakness" (29-30).
"Reaching Out" by Henri Nouwen
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