When someone loves you without trying to change you , you gain trust in that other person and confidence in yourself to become who you are.
A relationship like this between lovers creates intimacy. Between parent and child, it is like the dedicated self-discipline of yoga: Maintaining a relationship based on unconditional love is the “yoke that frees.”
As Ram Dass has said, “The only thing you have to offer another human being, ever, is your own state of being. . . . You realize that the only thing you have to do for another human being is to keep yourself really straight, and then do whatever it is you do.”
Acceptance of the beloved is a gift to both partners.