Reflection for July 10

The Mirror of Erised “shows us nothing more or less than the deepest and most desperate desire of our hearts... However this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible... The happiest man on earth would look into it and see himself, exactly as he is.” (Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone).