“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”  Simone Weil

“Attachment is the greatest fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.”  Simone Weil

“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other knocking on the wall.  The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication.  It is the same with us and God.  Every separation is a link.”  Simone Weil

“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”  Simone Weil

“The only thing that gets in the way of my connection to you is me.”  Ken Gibson

“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other knocking on the wall.  The wall is the thing that separates them but is also their means of communication.  It is the same with us and God.  Every separation is a link.”  Simone Weil

“Perhaps everything frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”  Rainer Maria Rilke

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden.  And if it is a thorn, you are fuel for the fire.”  Rumi

“Freedom to become more of who we truly are is one of the gifts that spiritual practices bring.”  Margaret Stortz