Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
When you love, you open your life to an Other….it takes great courage to let someone so close. Since the body is in the soul, when you let someone so near, you let the person become part of you. In the sacred kinship of real love two souls are twinned. The outer shells and contour of identity become porous. You suffuse each other.
John O’Donohue (1956–2008)
Irish poet, author, and Catholic scholar
Anam Cara: a book of Celtic Wisdom (1999)


