Love Defined

"Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I love that definition of love.  Have you ever been loved in the way of being led gently back to yourself?  I have realized that life's bumps have caused me to lose parts of myself along the way.  I think we all do that.  True love is when someone loves us enough to lead us back to who we are authentically.  It is what I think is the goal of therapy, at least in the type I do, to gently lead a person back to the essence of who they are -- because at the essence we are each beautiful.  Anything not beautiful is a result of building defenses against the world.