Jasmine Ariti

“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

“True spiritual awakening happens in silence, secluded, in deep privacy. 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.

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“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