And now for a cohesionless post

It has been quite the week at work, and I just got home after being in meetings all day. And I've been dealing with a nasty sinus infection all week, but it's finally clearing up. There is one highlight to my week, though, because I read an amazing book that was recommended to me by my friend Bridget: The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis. It's so good! I've read several of Lewis' books, but didn't get around to this one for some reason. I was missing out. And now I'm going to geek out and quote a couple of passages from it that I highlighted while reading:

'Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.'

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'Love!' said the Tragedian striking his forehead with his hand: then, a few notes deeper, 'Love! Do you know the meaning of the word?'
'How should I not?' said the Lady. 'I am in love. In love, do you understand? Yes, now I love truly.'
'You mean,' said the Tragedian, 'you mean - you did not love me truly in the old days.'
'Only in a poor sort of way,' she answered. 'I have asked you to forgive me. There was a little real love in it. But what we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you.'
'And now!' said the Tragedian with a hackneyed gesture of despair. 'Now, you need me no more?'
'But of course not!' said the Lady; and her smile made me wonder how both the phantoms could refrain from crying out with joy.
'What needs could I have,' she said, 'now that I have all? I am full now, not empty. I am in Love Himself, not lonely. Strong, not weak. You shall be the same. Come and see. We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.'