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Monday, September 22, 2008
Love = Vulnerable - 1:01 AM
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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. 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

This quotation is taken from a book which was written by C S Lewis (the author of Chronicles of Narnia). I read it many years ago and read it a couple of times because it was a too "chimz" for my puny brain. I saw it lying on my table so extracted a part of it..

I find it so true that loving means being vulnerable.. Vulnerable to rejections and disappointments.. Whether or not it is towards our family, friends or anyone.. Yet, despite of that, we are made to love, we are made to be relational beings and nobody can live without it.. Love is the fundamental sustenance of life and the whole essence of life. Imagine a world without it, everyone will be selfish, our hearts will be hardened, impenetrable and unbreakable..

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