"Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we invite the Spirit into our lives."

-- Robert E. Wells

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“From understanding comes LOVE.”
“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].”

Source : H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books
“I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?”
“What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jimmy Webb from Jan 12, 2011
“Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.”

Source : Justina Chen (2009). “North of Beautiful”, p.105, Hachette UK
“Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.”
“I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.”

Source : "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.
“Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on a long spindly stem, one blood red gold flower opening at mid-summer, tiny, perfect in its hour.”

Source : Sam Hamill (2002). “Dumb Luck: Poems”, p.88, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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