God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all.
— 1 John 1:5
you can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
even
after
all this time
the sun never says
to the earth, “you owe me.”
look
what happens
with a love like that.
it lights the
whole
sky
— fourteenth-century sufi poet hafiz
sometimes it’s the good things that keep us from the best things
to love at all is to be vulnerable. love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. if you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. but in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. it will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. to love is to be vulnerable.
— c.s. lewis, the four Loves
