Rea Nolan Martin > Quotes

“Forgiveness is capital 'L' Love in action. Until you have to forgive someone, you haven't loved. You just think you have. Until somebody forgives you, you don't know humility. [p342, 1st paperback edition]”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“her journey has not been what she expected. And she is willing to admit that she, herself, may be blocking the light.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“you have to know what you’re doing and do it for the good of all beings. You have to be clear about your Source. It’s about awareness and intention. My Source, like the Magi’s, is God. God is good. God begets goodness. God is goodness itself.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“live out their years on the farm”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“Trust the darkness, child.” Augusta’s eyes widen. “The darkness?” she repeats. “Not the light?” Grace shakes her head. “God plants his strongest seeds in the darkest soil,” she says. “Be open to it, Augusta. In times of trouble, things are not always as they seem. Trust what others do not. Trust yourself.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“God doesn’t judge us,” she hears herself saying. “We judge each other as if we were God. We have no right to do that. Our sole job on this earth is to forgive and be forgiven while we still can. Peace.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“Until you have to forgive someone, you haven’t loved. You just think you have.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“The measure of mature faith is the understanding that the adventure we’re all living is larger and more complex than even the most enlightened of us could ever imagine, never mind control.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Walking on Water: A Path to Empowerment

“God in his mysterious ways births a new order by annihilating the old.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“The feline saint adores Arielle, who wouldn’t? She might not be Grace but she resonates Grace, so in that way, she is. In the end what’s left of us on this earth is our resonance, our energetic essence. Grace surrounds Arielle; emanates through her. If you watch the girl at high noon in the summer sun you can see the rainbow arc of Grace’s light all about her. You just have to know what to look for. Arielle responds to it—dances to it. She is it!”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“just space in your head that helps you put things in perspective. You need it to create whole new files for things you thought could never happen, but can. And do. If you don’t make a place for them in your brain, you’ll go crazy, because they’ll haunt you until you do.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“A plan is just a plan. This is life. You can’t get in its way.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“She is given to understand that the Light is God.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea

“But I’m not myself yet,” she says. “Not completely.” Arielle throws her green gingham dress over her head and pushes her way into her boots. “Nobody is,” she says. “That little job takes a lifetime.”
― Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea