Amy Joy

“Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact and the place of surrender.”
― Richard Rohr, What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion.” ~ Albert Einstein”
― Benjamin Riggs, Finding God in the Body: A Spiritual Path for the Modern West

“We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness”
― Richard Rohr, What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self