"The meaning and worth of love, as a feeling, is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for another the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very center of our personal life".
- Vladimir Solovyov, quoted in I To We: The role of consciousness transformation in compassion and altruism, by Cassandra Vieten, Tina Amorok, and Marilyn Mandala Schlitz. Zygon, vol. 41, no. 4 (December 2006).
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