Maya/Inspiration

The mountains,
I become part of it…
the herbs, the fir tree, I become part of it.
the morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters,
I become part of it.
The wilderness, the dew drops, the pollen…
I become part of it.

―Navajo Chant

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Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.
Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.

Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.
Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.

―Rob Bell

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

― Louise Erdrich