"How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay."

This quote expresses Gibran's deep understanding that most love comes quietly attached to conditions. We are often loved for what we provide, how we perform, who we are willing to become for someone else. But every now and then, a rarer love appears, one that wants nothing from you but your wellbeing. It does not keep score. It does not ask you to shrink or prove or earn your place. It simply wishes to see you whole, to know you are at peace, to watch you rest easy in your own life.

To be loved like that, freely and without demand, is one of the gentlest gifts a person can receive. And to love another that way, wanting only their peace, is perhaps the closest love ever comes to the divine...