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The light in your soul can illuminate any darkness.

I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at.

It is what it is

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Somebody’d better pray for him, don’t you think? He IS a lost soul.~Pastor John Linton

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.

Le Marais?’‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It’s the only place to stay.

A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

Legend says that when you can't sleep at night it's because you're awake in someone else's dream

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever.Yep, just like people.

Get close to only those who renew our spirit and sense of purpose in life.

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.

In a nutshell, the difference between Christianity and all other belief systems is who you're putting your trust in: in Christ, or in yourself?

...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom.

And then he’s somewhere inside of me, each thrust rattling my ribcage like a bottle of pills. I’m somewhere outside of myself, thinking about lust— about my slutty white sheets and all the men who like to hide in them.

Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!

Sacred existence fuels the heart of gratitude.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

One week after New Year's Day in 2006, I was on a flight to Aceh…As we walked down the steps on to the tarmac, the air felt humid and tropical, familiar and almost Balinese. It felt like going home. As the heavy air embraced me, my first inclination was to relax into it, but yet this was not home and my entire body remained on edge.

Only one spirit, either good or bad, can operate at a time.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

The best stories are about a character who has a goal or noble quest and goes through hell to get it. Do you have a goal or quest like that in real life? Why not?

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.

A sad fact in life is that you cannot have winners without losers, no matter what you do, it's up to you to make out which one you are.

Even if you do not want to, One day you will look back through your life...the Question is, what are you going to see? How will your rate and direction of progress make you feel?

Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery"~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

Destiny's Gate is filled with darkness and light. If you identify with the darkness, this is a good sign as we all have to embrace the darkness within us in order to heal and be brought into the Light as One.

To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me relies on assumptions, associations, commonalities and a kind of agreed shorthand, which no-one could precisely define but which everyone would admit exists. That is one reason why it is an effort to have a proper conversation in a foreign language. Even if I am quite fluent, even if I understand the dictionary definitions of words and phrases, I cannot rely on a shorthand with the other party, whose habit of mind is subtly different from my own. Nevertheless, all of us know of times when we have not been able to communicate in words a deep emotion and yet we know we have been understood. This can happen in the most foreign of foreign parts and it can happen in our own homes. It would seem that for most of us, most of the time, communication depends on more than words.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

Well, I’m just going to say it.I’m listening, Louis said.I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.

This IS exactly how things look just before your dreams ignite!

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy person would carve out a very private, quiet place in the world, only to pour his/her innermost thoughts and emotions onto a page for the entire world to examine? Even in fiction, we give a map to our most secret feelings. Why do writers do it? Perhaps because we'd be crazier still if we didn't.

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.

Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aiming.

I went from this great depression to waking up next too the love of my life; the same man who silently gave me something to hold onto for nearly four years. That isn't even comprehendible but it is so beautiful and I am so proud to be his woman, fortress of strength and care. I couldn't walk away from that even if you paid me.

Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.

Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.

We want more than there is.

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.

Depressed states can make us feel like we're constantly fighting against ourselves but we must engage in that fight for ourselves.

Life feels good if you don't know what it is.

Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places she didn’t know were parched.

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?

We have more control than most of us realize. Each day is filled with thousands of opportunities to change the story of our lives.

The failure of the citizens to pray for the country, will lead to its downfall.

Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.

How we live as leaders matters.