“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”
“Sooner or later our souls find their centre of gravity in a hot, salt-tasting kiss and a trembling touch. Trembling is a good sign: it means you re open to a world that knows you re coming.”
“The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.”
“What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.”
“As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for your wholeness, your entirety, to share its deepest wisdom.”
“It s like there was a fellow in every man that s done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.”
“The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you’d always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you’d thought you were as a child and rejoicing in its living, breathing actuality.”
“YOU ARE NOT HERE TO LISTEN TO YOURSELF, YOU ARE HERE TO LISTEN TO YOUR SOUL.”
“Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won t always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what s going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?”
“Possibilities are a mysterious beauty. They tease us to explore while our inner child cheers because an adventure is waiting.”
“Age is a timeless beauty. At each mile in my life journey, I am a distinctive blend of what I ve experienced and the unique talents I was given to share with others.”
“Balance is the key to a long and happy life.”
“Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn t look past the obvious and on the other side of busy.”
“Actually, the Sniper s sense of humor frightened Amy more than anything else. The parody of Carla s poem had been witty, the rudeness of Marvy s critique outlandish, and she was still, for some reason, focused on that youse in the Sniper s counterfeit email. Youse was like a spectral elbow to Amy s ribs. Dangerous, malevolent people should not be amusing. In order to be humorous, you had to have perspective, to be able to stand outside yourself and your own needs and grudges and fears and see yourself for the puny ludicrous creature you really are. How could somebody do that and still imagine himself entitled to harry, to wound, to kill?”
“Take pride in what you do & let the quality of your work be your signature”
“... tried praying for him ...but I couldn t. I just couldn t. Don t ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn t summon the strength to pray for it.”
“When we shift from trying to figure it out to feeling our way, insight arrives.”