QUOTE : You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn -- by practice and careful contemplation -- the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-- carefully. And f you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love. Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges; the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it. <br /><br />How do you know you have graduated? You don't.