Maggie Ross > Quotes

“There is nothing much you can do except to trust your skill, your reactions, and your boat, to try to avoid rocks and treacherous eddies marked by smoother, more inviting water, and the great holes, the vortices, that can swallow a canoe and destroy it. The river can kill you. So can God.”
― Maggie Ross, The Fire of Your Life

“I struggle impotently to express who I really am. Often I would confess these sins as I kneel and gabble my “Bless-me-Father-for-I-have-sinned …” but it is suffering too deep for speech, and true guilt almost too deep for conscious knowledge.”
― Maggie Ross, The Fire of Your Life

“We all get crucified at some point, and we might as well be crucified for our own ideals as for someone else’s.”
― Maggie Ross, The Fire of Your Life

“Today, the resurgence of interest in so-called mysticism (a dog’s breakfast of a word that needs to be eliminated from the discussion) is tainted with voyeurism and self-aggrandizement, and has become a consumer circus based on quests for “experiences” that lead customers away from, not toward, the silence and illumination they seek.”
― Maggie Ross, Silence: A User's Guide: Volume 1: Process