. . . as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. . . . We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.