Jasmine Ariti

“Human caring can elevate the heavy dullness of earth, giving rise to a unique magnificence. In the Life Contract being planned here, incarnated YOU will never lose that human ability to care, so unique in all the universe.”
― Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening—A Memoir

“Silent, where you can't hear anything on the outside, but inside you are singing with every fiber of your being. And you're connected, through joy, to every stranger near you, even if nobody stops to speak. Not that I wish to talk, either. Instead, I stand still, mid-block, on Queens Boulevard, while listening for something that can't be quite heard physically. Yet somehow the sweetest silence is peeking out through the whoosh and rushing of other pedestrians, and despite how loudly the cars are squeaking, due to the wet roads.”
― Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening—A Memoir

“In life, you must do everything for yourself and that includes deciding things for yourself. You can choose your own perspective.

For instance, some people believe in a God who fixes everything for you, but your Mommy and I don't believe in that. We are agnostics, which means we don't sit waiting around for God to rescue us. We must do things for ourselves. You can learn to do that, too.”
― Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016