you have to
“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.
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
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
Wow, I love this! Thank you so much for this. I love coming here and being inspired to love deeper and bigger. Hope you are doing well these days!
ReplyDeletei am doing well, thank you.
Deletei am happy to inspire. i often have to remind myself to fill my heart with goodness. i actually copied this from someone else about a year ago and have had it in my notes. i cannot remember who...but felt drawn to it recently.
thank you for stopping by. xo
Sounds like my life this past year!
ReplyDeleteThat made me cry.
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