Food for Thought on a Wintry Monday

'The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.'
--Thomas Merton (quote courtesy of my friend Lois' fine Heart @ Work blog)

'I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.'
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.