Jasmine Ariti

“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

“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.

“Bring joy. Bring joy. As much joy as I can bring into this world.

Why exactly? Pre-birth memories came and went, yet through all the confusions of life, I have always remembered joy best. Therefore, even as a baby who couldn't move very well yet, I knew, "Nothing ever will matter more than this: to bring people those little bursts of joy." A softly spreading, soul-sticky joy, brimming over with connection to All That Is; love as big as a cloudless blue sky when the sun is shining, a mysterious love that people can't photograph or quote or, for that matter, even quite remember.”
― Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening—A Memoir

“While integration of spiritual wisdom is earned through one free will choice at a time, earned by living in integrity, by doing one's reasonable best even if nobody else is watching.”
― Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening—A Memoir