“If you do not let yourself be seen, you cannot see.”
“Letting go of who you re supposed to be and discovering who you really are is a journey of many experiences, but certainty is not one of them. No matter how long you wait, it ll never feel safe enough. Plunge in anyway.”
“I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it.”
“Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?”
“All of us are in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with our inmost self.”
“The thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word lost comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.”
“Emma, you have lived before…in other lifetimes.” I was waiting for him to burst into laughter and tell me this was some ridiculous prank. Where was he going with this? “I have been reincarnated?” “Yes, several times. You accidently breathed in God’s energy at an Egyptian temple and that energy never dies.” I sat there staring blankly, wondering if I had fallen in love with a mad man. “Emma, your soul is confused…” “Between?” “Being human and being God”
“You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.”
“Remember that you are never alone—you are always with yourself.”
“The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one’s self.”
“And that was it. That was the moment when everything started to shift. What do you want?”
“Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro s white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro s allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro s allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- a bewildering and vexing question.”
“not having a space you can call your own is dangerous. Everyone needs a sanctuary.”
“Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.”
“How silly of us to think we can hide from God. How insane of us to think our thoughts are private, don’t you know that nothing is hidden? And what is it that you are hiding from anyway, your light, the love that you are? Are you afraid of remembering that you are a Child of God? That you are whole and holy, what a beautiful golden being of Light you are my child. There is nothing you see in this world that is as beautiful and brilliant as you, the most beautiful sunset, or sunrise is nothing in comparison to you. I have one thought and that is for you to remember who you are, where you are and how much you are LOVED. -God”
“No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that.”
“All that we see around us is not what it appears…As is the second coming not what we thought it would be. It is the knowledge that the spirit of God lives in all things and all things are joined together in the light of Love who is God. Thus accepting the truth of who you are”