Beyond the abyss, and the shadows

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

This is the most important of all voyages of discovery.

~ Thomas Merton

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regard thou faith as a tree. 

Its fruits, leaves, boughs and branches are, and have ever been, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness and forbearance.

                                              ~ Bahá’u'lláh