true beauty

"i realized that my tears were a gift; at school, the sisters had taught me that the saints wept with ecstasy. i opened my eyes, gazed at the darkness of the heavens, and felt my tears blending in with the raindrops. the earth was alive and the drops from above brought the miracles of heaven with them. we were all a part of that same miracle. how wonderful that God may be a woman... if that's true, then it was certainly God's feminine face that taught us how to love."


Paulo Coehlo, "By the River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept"