“The spiritual law at the core of our being requires that we reach out. We are fulfilled in the extent that we are in relationship. We cannot disobey or even resist this law without suffering. So wondrously are we made that we are happiest when we are loving and miserable when we are not loving. The nature of our own beings witnesses to the nature of God’s being… The survival of soul, of spirit, of psychic life and personality is dependent on giving and receiving.”
-Elizabeth O’Connor, The New Community, p. 14
