The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.
God dwells within you, as you.
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
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