Hidden Journey - Andrew Harvey.
As we come closer to people, to our friends and to our lovers, we are confronted with new layers of 'stuff' we have to examine. The more the layers of ego come off, the more the pure light shines through, the more we can allow the energy to flow through us. In Andrew Harvey's Hidden Journey his grandmother, I believe it is, tells him that all pain in this world is to take us back to god, to the source, to the heart of love.