Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.