Oneness

"What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same."  Mark Nepo

Becoming Human

"It took me a long time to decide to become a human being, and look within my own flawed nature for salvation.   It took mistakes, dark nights of the soul, hard work and help from teachers and friends to fashion a spirituality that respected both my divinity and my humanity, my radiance and my shadow.   It took my own combination of religion and psychology, meditation and physical healing, mysticism and science to forge a path that felt genuine and effective."   Elizabeth Lesser

Individuality

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."  Robert Louis Stevenson

Consciousness

"Initially, matter does not want to become conscious, nor does spirit want to be embodied.  Only gradually do body and psyche push toward consciousness, and only when they are sufficiently grounded in love, can conscious matter be penetrated be the light of the spirit.  The Divine Child, the new consciousness, is born of that union."  Marion Woodman

Truth and Love

"So much of what we do each day is a diversion from what our lives are really about.  A traumatic event is like a knife slicing through our diversionary tactics and exposing the vein of truth; the truth of what we really want, of how we really feel, of the wrongs we have visited upon each other, of the love we crave from each other.  In our habitual lives, we exercise the foolish luxuries of complaining, avoiding and blaming.   We gossip about the annoying behaviors of friends or colleagues, shutting them out of our hearts, turning our backs on their complicated beauty in favor of their obvious flaws.  It seems easier to do this than to take responsibility when it is ours to take, or to speak directly to others when it is theirs.   All the while, the truth waits patiently."   Elizabeth Lesser

Diversity

"If humankind could only let it's fear and prejudice go, it would gradually learn the inestimable riches and nourishment that diversity brings."   John O' Donahue