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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart
will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make
sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even
to an animal....The only place outside Heaven where you can be
perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is Hell."
-C.S. Lewis
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course, the opposite danger is throwing your love around to anyone you
think will take it. that, i'm afraid, is a much worse fate than hell.
the
trick is in the balance. love certainly opens you up to hurt. and there
are levels of love. in a very real sense we are to love all people. so
we are open to be hurt by everyone. there is also romantic love, and
that requires a bit more guard. and there is an even deeper love, one
that i can barely speak of, the kind that is most true. with the latter
two (to varying degrees), the idea is to not open yourself up to
another person with that kind of love until they can be trusted to love
you back and not hurt you. |
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