Romance opens the door to love, but does not help us walk through it. Something deeper and ultimately more real is required. Love must die a thousand deaths to be strengthened beyond neediness and self-interest, to rise above adversity of any kind. In time our mistakes teach us compassion for others. Like us, they will stumble and fall over and over until that moment of profound acceptance when the beloved takes their hand in the circle. From the author of the Christ Mind series and many other books.