JMLS: Who Says You Can't Have an Interlude

"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

JMLS Part 3: Finding Repairs for a Broken Heart

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
C.S. Lewis



Finding Another You

photo by Andreas Levers

JMLS Part 2: Escaping the Flames of War

photo by Chris OBrien

"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. "

W. H. Auden

JMLS Part 1: Stone Cold Heart to Rocky Start

Photo by Nattu

"It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in every little incidents tells us a great deal."

Eknath Easwaran

JMLS - Prelude

photo by Alan Cleaver

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

Allan K. Chalmers