Andrea Perron > Quotes

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” Frank Lloyd Wright”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One: The True Story Volume One

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” Vernon Sanders Law”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One: The True Story Volume One

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― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two

“There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.” Emmanuel Teney”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men.” M. Frida Hartley”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two

“The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self.” Aldous Huxley”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“The Universe is always speaking to us… sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.” Nancy Thayer”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“The telling of this true story is not intended to persuade the reader of its authenticity. Those who believe in the existence of the spirit world will not require convincing; those who do not believe so will likely remain skeptical. It matters that this tale be told with honesty and integrity. Embarking upon the journey has been scary in its own right. For the past forty years the family involved has remained guarded and exclusive about their mutual experience. Delving into the painful memories has proved difficult; rekindling imagery, disturbing emotions long repressed. Exhuming the dead spawned its share of nightmares and yet it is a tale worthy of telling because it is true; a collective memoir worthy of sharing because of the message a family received.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One: The True Story Volume One

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” Dorothy Bernard”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” Albert Einstein”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“As beings in perpetual motion, ever-changing, consciously or not, in death we change yet again, morphing into something else: as pure energy, soul and spirit dispersed into the Cosmos. Metamorphosis is not an event but is instead an ongoing co-creative process which we remain actively involved in during each moment of existence. We are; always have been, always will be, in some form or another. Best we come to terms with Infinity and our own immortality. Accept it and move on across the Universe…at light speed.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“Truth be told; we have no earthly idea regarding the origin of the species or the Universe so how can so many speak with such authority on a subject they know nothing about? Why is this subject treated as a matter of faith when it is as much a matter of science? Humankind may never resolve the dilemma of this thing called “life” but it will not be for lack of trying; our attempt to unravel the threads of an infinite tapestry. The greatest minds on the planet, past and present, have kept constant vigil with the concept as a central theme, a proposition of the thought-process, whether the catalyst be spiritual longing or scientific inquiry…whether the point of reference and persuasion begins in the study of faith or physics matters not. They are the same. They seek same. When science and religion merge as one the true enlightenment will begin.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” Saint Bernard”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.” Andrew Lias”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One: The True Story Volume One

“I think the church makes God too small. I think God is bigger than any of us can even imagine.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two

“These were acts of terrorism as crowd control, indicative of a fear-based mindset during a brutal, savage age in history. It is amazing that humanity has survived its own inhumanity.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“As a method of measurement based upon Nature itself, the invention of time was brilliantly conceived and still functions splendidly as the system by which humanity marks its existence: a precise, entirely arbitrary assignment yet, by its mere presence, establishing the concept of past, present and future. It is a calculated attempt to control and manipulate environment, providing a specific structure to be learned, accepted and followed by mortals in search of a purpose and meaning to an otherwise chaotic world. However, when one is close enough to touch, to smell and hear someone else who died centuries before they were born, this contact warps time and skews space for eternity. Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is ever small or compartmentalized again.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One: The True Story Volume One

“Whether as a nation liberating itself from a dictator or an inspection agent discovering a cargo container full of children destined to be sex slaves, or as a frightened woman escaping her abusive husband, the aim is the same: freedom from control. It is all the same thing. When one is held back, kept in captivity, there is a single imperative…release. Liberation.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“During these moments a confluence of darkness and light known as dusk and dawn may be precisely what mortal eyes require, so to behold what is always there,”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.” Joan Halifax”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“Disputes arise, but on one point we all agree: someday some great minds will integrate, merging in a loving embrace. Science will find its magical spark in spirituality, switching on the Light for all to see.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“Your prayer can be poetry and poetry can be your prayer.” Noelani Day”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” Anatola France”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.” Mary Stewart”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.” Kahlil Gibran”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two

“What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.” Martina Horner”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two

“Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.” Evan Esar”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

“To deliberately surround oneself with beauty is an act of self-love, as there is nothing more comforting than to reconnect with source…the Mother.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” Henri Frederick Amiel in the closet “When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within.”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, nor opened a new doorway for the human spirit.” Helen Keller”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two