Wisdom from Elif Shafak’s, The Forty Rules of Love.

If you want to strengthen your faith, you will need to soften inside. For your faith to be rock solid, your heart needs to be as soft as a feather. Through an illness, accident, loss, or fright, one way, or another, we are all faced with incidents that teach us how to become less selfish and judgmental, and more compassionate and generous. Yet some of us learn the lesson, and manage to become milder, while some others end up becoming even harsher than before…