Amy Joy

“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

“Endurance of darkness is the preparation for Great Light." -St. John of The Cross”
― Clint Sabom, Preparation For Great Light: Recollections Of A Christian Mystic

“Poetry is the language of the gods.”
― Charles Upton, What Poets Used to Know: Poetics • Mythopoesis • Metaphysics

“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