Allison

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”
― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“The deep joy of awakening is a happiness not of merriment or exuberance, but a love that reveals itself precisely when sadness or other difficult emotions are allowed to unfold just as they are. It is a joy of relinquishing, allowing, setting down the burden. The spiritual search, then, is really the cessation of searching. No more manipulating experience in order to feel better (what will it be this time?), no more lurching out of the mind for satisfaction.  But letting go, letting be, and giving up.”
― Jay Michaelson, The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path

“To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is.  Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away. ”
― Jay Michaelson, The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path