When the world around is ready to back one unconditionally, one can become as unreasonable, unfair, and coldly sadistic as one likes.

Families help us learn what unconditional love is

Being authentic begins with unconditional self acceptance - imperfections and all.

Receiving unconditional love is safer with animals. Maybe it makes giving it as a human easier

The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out — a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.

Love is a sacrificial item