What did it feel like to die? Was it a peaceful sleep? Some thought it was full of either trumpet-blowing angels or angry devils. Perhaps I was already dead.

They're not scary when they're ready to go to heaven, are they?

But, she says, if she could break them when they appear inconvenient to her, of what would be their worth? If you only obey God's word when it seems reasonable or profitable to you - well, that isn't...

In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why

Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is...

Feeling is the language of the soul.

Events and experiences are opportunities drawn to you - created by you individually or collectively, through consciousness. Consciousness creates experience. You are attempting to raise your...

Your story does not live in your soul, only in your mind.

Divine Dichotomy holds that it is possible for two apparently contradictory truths to exist simultaneously in the same space. Now on your planet people find this difficult to accept. They like to have...

We can take comfort from the fact that God knows our hearts and hears our unspoken petitions as well as the words that emanate from our lips. Whenever we are unable to express the deep feelings and...

afterlife, the space between earth and not - earth, world and not - world, highly polished floors and glass - roof cathedral echoes and the whole anonymous

Instead, I would raise my altar with the image of Beatrice; and, by consecrating myself to her, I would consecrate myself to the world of spirit and to the gods. The part of life I took from the...

Our thinking is a constant abstraction, a turning away of the gaze from the senses, an attempt to construct a purely spiritual world. Yet you favor precisely what is most unstable and mortal, and...

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

What we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention in order to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take next.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that...

We rest in Him, find our nourishment in Him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely...

Driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will; She can, though every...

The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.

When he was young, the lesson learned from his mother, as much by cuffs as caresses, was that love is action--what you do, not what you feel--but perhaps, he thinks now, it was a false lesson, and...

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles...

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

Temples to make offerings, turn the prayer wheels, and light candles

There is no wisdom without spirituality, and true spirituality always includes service

Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born,' Tete prayed aloud. 'Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an...

Do you know, in general, how strong God has made you? How strong and good He has made you?

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.