Thursday, July 15, 2010

Love

Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no-one, not even to 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. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation.

CS Lewis - The Four Loves

1 comment:

  1. Lewis wrote many thoughtful words. These have always been some of my favorites. Thanks for posting them.
    Deb

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