“There
is no safe investment. 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. 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 to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only
place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the
dangers and perturbations of love is Hell…
We
shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings
inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him;
throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and
if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.”
~C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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