“I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without.”
― Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
― Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
“Since the experience is different for each individual, the tension will reflect that experience. In some persons the whole lower half of the body is relatively immobilized and held in a passive state; in others the muscular tensions are localized in the pelvic floor and around the genital apparatus. If the latter sort of tension is severe, it constitutes a functional castration; for, although the genitals operate normally, they are dissociated in feeling from the rest of the body. Any reduction of sexual feeling amounts to a psychological castration. Generally the person is unaware of these muscular tensions, but putting pressure upon the muscles in the attempt to release the tension is often experienced as very painful and frightening.”
― Fear Of Life
― Fear Of Life
“As Elizabeth Barrett Browning once observed poetically: "Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.”
― Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
― Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
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