"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
Ah, C.S. Lewis, you've done it again. Thoughts that I've never quite been able to get from my mind to my lips he said so eloquently. This is such a true quote. To be able to love anything, you must give something of yourself. It is your choice. To either live inside a guarded tower, with heart completely guarded, and never love; or, to step beyond fear and take the chance to open your heart and experience love or even rejection.
My friends, let's go beyond our fears and learn to love.
[I saw this quote by C.S. Lewis on my friend's blog (Binding the Main) and it was too good to pass by. If you have the time, you should seriously check out her page.]
