You would probably feel miserably alone for years if you had only one brief experience of what you had been yearning for throughout your life. In your loneliness, you would live like a sentry, desperately scanning the horizons of your life for the sight of another saving, transforming relationship with higher consciousness.

People who are dominantly emotional yearn for continuous emotional satisfaction — not only occasional delights. They need to feel they have constant meaning and value to others. They want to give and receive love every day.

Now the relationships with higher consciousness become...