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“Those who hold the pen hold the power.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Spiritual Vixen's Guide to an Unapologetic Life

“Light does not lie. It always gives a straight answer. It tells it exactly as it is.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Spiritual Vixen's Guide to an Unapologetic Life

“Every day God is rolling out the red carpet for you.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Spiritual Vixen's Guide to an Unapologetic Life

“I’ll be damned if I won’t be blessed by this.”
― Maureen Muldoon, The Life Of A Sandcastle

“In order to grow, you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.”
― Maureen Muldoon

“What is true is true through and through.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Spiritual Vixen's Guide to an Unapologetic Life

“Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God’s business . . . even your own life is not your business. It also is God’s business. Leave it to God. It is an astonishing thought. It can become a life-transforming thought . . . unclench the fists of your spirit and take it easy . . . What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort . . . than being able from time to time to stop that chatter . . . ”
― Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets: A Celebrated Author's Candid Memoir of a Father's Suicide and Its Influence on a Son and Minister

“To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.”
― Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces – Essays and Sermons on Faith, Love, and the Power of Words

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“In order to grow
you have to let go
of all that you are
and all that you know.”
― Maureen Rose Muldoon

“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“I can’t believe THAT!” said Alice.
Can’t you?” said the Queen in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said, “one can’t believe impossible things.”
I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”
― Lewis Carroll

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.”
― Doris Mortman

“Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.”
― Marianne Williamson, Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships

“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”
― Julia Cameron

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“There is no evil.  30.         There is no absence of life, substance, or intelligence anywhere.  31.          Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death cannot master me, for they are not real.  32.         There is nothing in all the universe for me to fear, for greater is He that is within me than he that is in the world.”
― H. Emilie Cady, Premium Complete Collection: Lessons In Truth; How I Used Truth; God A Present Help

“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.”
― Anandamayi Ma

“When in spite of all efforts one fails to catch a train, does this not make it clear from where all one's movements are being directed? Whatever is to happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time, is all fixed by Him... His arrangements are perfect”
― Anandamayi Ma

“Perfect resignation gives the deepest joy of all . Accept it as your sole resource”
― Anandamayi Ma

“We are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
― Gautama Buddha

“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are different, separate, broken.
Then one day the mad idea escapes the asylum. Most times it’s unplanned. It just tumbles out on the lap of the man sitting next to us on the bus, or it slips sideways into a conversation on line at the Trader Joe’s or it falls out at the kitchen table when your neighbor comes to pick up her cat.
And there is a terrifying moment when it first hits the light of day, where we think, “holy mother of God! What have I done? How could I have been to casual with my crazy ways?”
But the man on the bus just smiles and nods his head, and the casher takes a moment to look us in the eye and the neighbor sits for a cup of tea and together we move into some new agreements that we are all in fact crazy and it’s so much nicer to be out of the closet with it all.”
― Maureen Muldoon

“Enlightenment is when we allow ourselves to melt like a sugar cube into the hot tea of God.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Spiritual Vixen's Guide to an Unapologetic Life

“Every good punch-line comes from being punched.”
― Maureen Muldoon , Spiritual Vixen's Guide to an Unapologetic Life

“You are the archer, the arrow, the bow, and the bull’s-eye.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Giant Love Song: A Memoir

“Butterflies have no uses for caterpillar maps.”
― Maureen Muldoon, The Spiritual Vixen's Guide To An Unapologetic Life

“If you want to get to the truth, forgive everyone, including yourself, and all that will be left is Truth.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Giant Love Song: A Memoir

“God gives us a thousand second chances. Who are we to limit possibilities for ourselves and others?”
― Maureen Muldoon, Giant Love Song: A Memoir