Day 35

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We are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We are the warriors of the light.
With the strength of our love and our will, we can change our destiny, as well as the destiny
of many others.

...The day will come when love will be accepted by every heart, and the most terrible of human
experiences--solitude, which is worse than hunger--will be banned from the face of the Earth.
The day will come when those who knock at the gates will see them open; those who ask
will receive; those who weep will be consoled.

For the planet Earth, that day is still a long way off. But for each of us, that day can be tomorrow.
One only has to accept a simple fact: Love--of God and of others--shows us the way. Our defects,
our dangerous depths, our suppressed hatreds, our moments of weakness and desperation--all
are unimportant. If what we want to do is heal ourselves first, so that we can go in search of our
dreams, we will never reach paradise. If, on the other hand we accept all that is wrong about us--
and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life--then we will have thrown open an
immense window that will allow Love to enter. Little by little, our defects will disappear, because
one who is happy can look at the world only with love--the force that regenerates everything that
exists in the Universe.

-Paolo Coelho, The Valkyries (Epilogue)