"To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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." 
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

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sunday inspiration.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,

talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of

God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously give other people

permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.

—Marianne Williamson

lifelong journey.

"the truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. for it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers..." -m. scott peck

this is what i am doing. the journey has only begun... and i'm not sure there is a final destination but i am ready to soak up everything i can along the way.

inspiration is everywhere.

even in the movie "harriet the spy". yes, i found inspiration in that movie. i always loved it when i was younger. harriet is a young girl that aspires to be a writer so she spies & writes down everything she does & everything she sees. cheesy? not at all. i wanted to be just like her. she has a nanny named "golly" (played by rosie o'donnell) who has a great outlook on life.

in the movie golly says:

"There are as many ways to live in this world as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look."

how true is that? sometimes i feel people tend to be so close-minded & set in their ways that they feel the way they live is the right way and don't care to take the time to look any closer at the way someone else lives. there is so much to learn from one another.

a conversation between golly & harriet:

harriet: I want to remember everything. And I want to know everything.
golly: Well, you must realize, Harriet, knowing everything won't do you a bit of good unless you use it to put beauty in this world. True or false?
harriet: True.
golly: Of course it is.

once again, very true. knowing just isn't enough; we need to apply. what is knowledge if we don't do anything with it?

last but not least:

"Good friends are one of life's blessings. Don't give them up without a fight."

thanks for my inspiration of the day, golly.