Love activates human potential like a seed cracking its shell. The speaker describes love as the force that keeps us alive and motivates growth, then shares their mother's wisdom: just make do with what you have.
Love is the greatest healer of all. It's the essence of healing. It's what allows a person to really connect with another person, because life itself is sort of like a little seed. It has a shell around it. You have within that shell a whole universe energy, but it can't do anything until that shell is broken. And the only way that happens is when love activates and cracks that shell. And so it's that whole love-life process that is our life process. It's what keeps us going. It's what keeps us alive. It's that inner urge that latches onto something and says, yeah, that's good for now. And then we can find something else if we need to. My mother's important statement was, well, just make do. If you do, you take what you've got on hand and you make it work.
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