As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ.

Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

The depths of the self are the heights of God.

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

Never stop saying, “I love you”!

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman Tiptoes into my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper; "Go to sleep, everything is alright"

Family makes life whole to me.

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.