Near here is the Land That they call Life. You'll know when you arrive By how real it is. Give me your hand. God speaks to each of us, Rainer Maria Rilke

no soul is rested Til it is emptied of all things That are made. When, for love of Him, It is empty, The soul can receive His deep rest. For he is our very rest, Julian of Norwich

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. Rumi

The divine will is a deep abyss of which the present moment is the entrance. If you plunge into this abyss you will find it infinitely more vast than your desires Jean Pierre de Caussade

A new life requires a death of some kind; otherwise it is nothing new, but a shuffling of the same deck. Roger Housden

Conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. Hamlet, Act III, scene i

It is impossible to accept the death of the soul unless one possesses another life, outside of the soul's illusory life... in the hands of our Father who is in secret. Simone Weil

Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.” John 8:21

"No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do." John 7:4,6

We see in this passage two very different and vivid pictures of Jesus.