Ryan Christensen

“Real things are made things. Are you a real person, or did your parents make you up? Is that a real mountain or did the forces of the universe make it up? Is the virtual reality of the Internet real or did imaginative people like Steve Jobs make it up?”
― Mary Ruefle, On Imagination

“Letting Silence pervade all we do does work because it never separates itself from the world. Thus we do not make the practice of Silence exclusively into a soul work and go inward, nor exclusively a spiritual work to attain some goal on a spiritual path. The work is to be with Silence itself, and in so doing we are one with soul, spirit, body, and world. When practiced over time, we find it becomes possible to be with Silence in all that we do, and in our doing, our presence in the world works as a healing force.”
― Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness

“Silence is not emptiness but an alert unfocusing focus on subtle rhythms that join our interiority to the natural world.”
― Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness

“Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World