Pete Orsi

“Transpersonal states of consciousness unfold as the depth of integration of the self and the Ground of Being increases. This process is one of transforming our identity from the particular to the universal to the Absolute.”
― Kathleen D. Singh, The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation

“No, of course I don’t. You two were crazy about each other. She was hearing the voices that killed her when she was a little girl. John Hardin hears those same voices. There’s a kind of songbird too pretty to fly with the crows and the starlings. The other birds attack it in flocks and tear it apart when it starts to sing. Nothing soft endures. Nature loathes meekness and goodness. Shyla got hurt early and deep. You kept her from the bridge as long as you could, son.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“With a wispier sense of self and growing courage and longing, we remain surrendered. This movement allows us to ripen every positive potentiality, our buddhaseed, our Christ consciousness, in transcendence. Here, as Martin Laird, a contemporary Christian contemplative, puts it, is “not the loss of identity but its flowering.”
― Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older

“Having faith does not mean you do not need to mourn. Having faith does mean having the courage to allow yourself to mourn!”
― Alan D. Wolfelt, Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart