“Forget the bandaids over wounds and umbrellas under rain and shade from the insistent, blaring sun.  Because what feels strange and nerve-wracking is usually something significant, and the expression ‘the only way around is through’ has taken on deeper and deeper meaning over time, and because we should stand steady and still rather than exit, and run.”  Victoria Erickson

“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield.”  W. B. Yeats

“Emptiness means things don’t exist in a static way, no boundary – – fullness.  Fullness and emptiness are the same thing ironically.”  Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”  D. T. Suzuki

“The power of one mustard seed can move a mountain.  The power of one clear light does illuminate the darkness.  The power of a person devoted to Truth becomes a channel for healing grace that benefits humanity.”  Caroline Myss

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.  To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”  Thomas Aquinas

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”  Rabindranath Tagore

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”  Mother Theresa

“I am grateful for all I have and for all I do not have.  If I am grateful for having been spared a suffering, give me the grace to help those who are suffering.”  Caroline Myss

“Prayer is not asking.  Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”  Mother Theresa