the journey

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."

- Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist

love

I always thought I'd loved before - and now, looking back, I realize that was never love at all. Not true love, not divine love. I'll find that one day, and when I do, the lessons I have learned will show me its true form.