"...And with love there are now rules... The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters...for in every love lies the seed of our growth" (vi).
"...joyful...no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender. This book is about the importance of that surrender... To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God" (vii).
IT was lovely, and powerful, and made me feel hopeful and sad at the same time.
"That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance...Only then...will the water extinguish what the flames have written. All love stories are the same" (2).
"As I listened to what he was saying - I felt myself growing closer to him - I was more and more convinced that he was right: there are moments when you have to take a risk, to do crazy things" (25).
"The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we are living in a different way.
"Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the father... In order to have a spiritual life... All you have to do is have faith and accept God. From then on, each of us becomes a part of His path. We become a vehicle for His miracles" (120).
i am DEFINITELY looking forward to this!
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