Janet

“In a case like this, most Christians won’t even bother to ask what Jesus would do. That’s because the answer wouldn’t match their feelings. As we’ve indicated before, the answer would always be the same — he’d forgive.”
― Gary R. Renard, The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk about Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness

“Down at the beginning of the new road, at park headquarters, is the new entrance station and visitor center, where admission fees are collected and where the rangers are going quietly nuts answering the same three basic questions five hundred times a day: (1) Where’s the john? (2) How long’s it take to see this place? (3) Where’s the Coke machine? Progress has come at last to the Arches, after a million years of neglect. Industrial Tourism has arrived. What”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.”
― Gary R. Renard, The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk about Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness

“The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles