Love - the Highest Form

Allow others to be who they will be, which is the highest form of love. I am studying Depak Chopra's The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want. Today, the message that spoke most clearly to me is the first sentence here. (See page 164, part of Step 6, Birth of the Seer.) Somehow I've had it all backwards. I thought I was exhibiting love when I was trying to help them by suggesting changes in them - actually demanding changes in them. Why is it that we think we must change others? Why is it we think we know what is best for everyone? Why is it we can't let others be who they are and just work on ourselves? Where do we think we get the power to even know what is best for others? Much less how to get there? Allow other people to be who they will be. Wow! I've got my work cut out for me today!