Pg 24 Quotes

“His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

In seventeen years no one has said my name like that”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“John Bunyan in 'Christian Behavior', said, 'The whole Bible was given for this very end, that you should both believe this doctrine and live in the comfort and sweetness of it.' How can we live in the sweetness and comfort of doctrines if we don't know what they are? We must learn them first, and then we can live in the joy of them. If we are only exposed to a dab of doctrine here and there, this is impossible.”
― Nancy Wilson, The Fruit of Her Hands: Respect and the Christian Woman

“Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.”
― Douglas Wilson, Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

“Let's just day love isn't easy. even when you're the sole survivors of a plane crash and you have the hots for each other.”
― Rebecca Serle, Famous in Love

“What is the same in every human being and doesn't change? [...]
That you exist.
The words we use to express this concept are "I am."
"I" is the pronoun we use to reference the self.
"Am" is the verb that references a state of being.
"I am" indicates self-awareness of being.
In the space between all words, all thoughts, all memories, what do you know with certainty? "I exist and I am aware of it."

When stating, "I am", all self-aware beings are referring to an identical experience. [...] No matter one's age or life history, "I am" - the awareness of being - is a shared phenomenon.

[This is] the part of you beyond your story.

Think of "I am" like the vast open sky. Any words that follow "I am" are clouds. They arise within the sky, temporarily changing the appearance of it, but they have no effect on the sky's basic existence.
Who are you beyond your story? You are the open sky my friend - the presence and expression of an immense Awareness that knows it exists.

Because this is a shared presence, it's more fitting to refer to this as the Absolute Self (with a capital S) as opposed to the temporary, limited sense of "my" self with a story. [...]

In the Bible, in the Book of Exodus, the story goes that when Moses asked for God's name, the first response he received was, "I AM that I AM."

So we have the Absolute "I AM" that is everywhere, all-knowing, and all-powerful. And we have over seven billion relative beings also claiming "I am." The difference between relative awareness and Absolute Awareness is the individual stories or exeriences that arise in the one I AM Awareness, like clouds in the sky. The Self is the sky. The selves are the clouds. You are not apart from the sky. You are intimately part of it as a self-aware expression fo self-awareness.”
― Suzanne Giesemann, The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life