Rayonna

“Knitting had done more than provide her with a living; it had soothed her soul through more struggles than she could count.”
― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club

“What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi