"For without love genuine desire for the other can’t exist; without love our lust becomes crude, unchaste craving for the flesh, transient and meaningless. Only through love can we enkindle a pure, wholesome desire that leads to a complete unity with the other. Yet this path to unity cannot be traveled without the will to sacrifice, for one needs to surrender one’s self unreservedly — only then, and through the joyous act of love, will a new eternal singleness materialize in the present life and the manifold lives to come."