“Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path. Recognizing this, and honoring it as such, endows romantic love with the grandeur and power it deserves. An overly casual mind might attract love easily enough, but lacks the emotional musculature necessary to maintain it. Love is a daytime as well as a nighttime activity, and it demands that we become a creature of both. Every part of who we are is brought up for review, that we might let go what is heavy and low within us, and claim what is light and high. Romance then becomes a spiritual missile, taking us from where we’ve been to where we need to go.”

– Marianne Williamson, “Enchanted Love”

Many of us grow weary on the journey. Courage says it’s normal to grow weary. And proceed anyway. To your courageous loving…