Like many women, while I hoped to have a deep, kind relationship with a man, I also knew I could have a big effect on men. I read all the magazines about how to get a man, and tried all the tips and techniques. But the more I had to do with men, the more pain I had and also gave. Many relationships ended in anger and bitterness

I didn't know then what I was so lucky to learn from Aesthetic Realism: the purpose of love is to like the whole world more, through one man to know reality more deeply, richly, energetically. How different from what I once thought—that the purpose of love was to have a man make a lot of me!