Love can be a huge mountain, ...

Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul\'s initiation. If there isn\'t fire, then it isn\'t love ... If it doesn\'t insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn\'t take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven\'t really loved.
Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.
 Marianne Williamson

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I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.
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