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“We are always seeking ourselves. -- Anamika
(from Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story)”
― Janis Harper

“When you die you don’t leave anything or anyone. The world as you knew it falls away because it only existed in your perception. No one is left behind. You’re all still there, stars in a constellation, just flickering in a different way because you’ve shifted your perspective.”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“Death is a shift of focus. There is no loss; no one disappears. The people who are important to you are like constellations of stars in the night sky. What you see shifts depending on your vantage point. It doesn’t mean that the stars you can’t see have disappeared. We each exist this way to each other, flickering in and out. Death is but another flicker. The constellation remains—the relationships, which are, ultimately, a kind of love.”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“Breakdowns literally break down old modes of perception, break them apart. In that way you can walk right through them, into a new way of seeing and being.”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“Everything is symbolic, and the meaning of the symbol lies within you. Interpret it.
There is a message there for you.”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“The resolution to the problem is in the problem itself. The medicine is in the illness.”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“You cause everything that you see in your world. And your world is the effect.”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“What I do know, and what science hasn’t seen yet, is that what we call ‘outer space,’ with its population of planets and stars and
perhaps other life, doesn’t really exist. Not even in the way we think tables and
chairs exist. Outer space is more ‘inner space.’ It’s inner space turned inside out.

Planets and stars don’t have a physical reality or quality; they aren’t places
that we can travel to, except in a highly superficial way. They are configurations
of intensely concentrated energy, like thoughts and beliefs are. Our romantic
notions of stars—we wish upon them, and sing about them in songs, write about
them in poetry, we connect them with our dreams and magic and showing us the
way in our own lives through astrology—these are closer to the reality of what
they are.

There will be no successful space missions to other planets because they
don’t exist that way. Why? Because other planets are really more like those other
dimensions I talk about. That’s the thing. They aren’t light years, galaxies away.
They aren’t ‘away’ at all. We will only travel in outer space when we learn to travel
in our inner space. And we don’t need to build rockets for that.”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“We may be emotionally moved by music, but in another dimension it actually moves and shapes matter. We may not make much use of sound’s vibrational properties to heal our bodies, though we use sound and music to heal our hearts. If you have an affinity for music, you might be able to access this dimension of sound with a shift of focus, a turning of attention away from the physical and a tuning of the attention to another frequency. You are a microcosm of a vast universe of living swirling planets. Listen carefully. Can you hear the music of the spheres?”
― Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story