Lisa

“When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor

“You don't need to retire to a cloister or the desert for years on end to experience a true dark night; you don't even have to be pursuing any particular "spiritual" path. Raising a challenged child, or caring for a failing parent for years on end, is at least as purgative as donning robes and shaving one's head; to endure a mediocre work situation for the sake of the paycheck that sustains a family demands at least as much in the way of daily surrender to years of pristine silence in a monastery. No one can know in advance how and where the night will come, and what form God's darkness will take.”
― Tim Farrington, A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“The Solid Ground We Stand On … Isn’t”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One