Hug from a saint? Check. I just visited Amma's ashram and received her famous hug. She really does have "it", that sparkle in her eye, that feeling of coming home.
"The common expression is 'I love you.' But instead of 'I love you,' it would be better to say, 'I am love.' Remove the I and you, and you will find that there is only love. It is as if love is imprisoned between the I and you. Take out the I and you, for they are unreal; they are self-imposed walls that don't exist. The gulf between I and you is the ego. When the ego is removed, the distance disappears and the I and you also disappear. They merge to become one - and that is love."
- Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)
