Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

Dreams are the language of God.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

If you don't fear, the Unknown will be KIND to you