We Are the Light Quotes

“And there is perhaps no greater pain than the suffering that comes from speaking plainly but failing to make any sort of meaningful connection with the people who care about you.”
― Matthew Quick , We Are the Light

“You can’t just pick and choose when it comes to healing. We must heal all who wish to be whole, and we must do so completely, thoroughly, and with the entirety of our souls.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“The best part of my soul loves the best part of your soul.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“It's everyone's soul's purpose to love, just like it's the job of our lungs and nose to breathe; and our mouths to chew and taste; and our feet to walk.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“But if we look with the right eyes, we will see that there is always more good than evil, which is primarily the reason why such things as love and friendship and community are even possible”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“We are all capable of the miraculous,”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“I decided to keep listening, rather than reply. I did my best to remain curious, because you always said that’s the best thing to be in every situation.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“I started to get better and I began to understand what you meant when you said your soul could love my soul because it’s everyone’s soul’s purpose to love, just like it’s the job of our lungs and nose to breathe; and our mouths to chew and taste; and our feet to walk.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“Darce and Jill were an odd couple—especially when we all were kids. Darcy was short and small with chin-length black hair. My wife was always cute and approachable. Jill was as tall as most boys. Her straight blond hair cascaded down to her butt. She floated through the high school hallways like a goddess. I would have never dreamed of speaking to her back then. As adults, Jill was the one who was always nervously telling jokes and Darcy was the one who was always quick to laugh, throwing her head back and roaring with her mouth wide open. My wife was easy to please and Jill was a pleaser. Jill’s looks often made other girls self-conscious but my wife was always very comfortable in her own skin. Jill was impulsive. Darcy was thoughtful. All of the Jill and Darcy puzzle pieces just naturally snapped together. For every tab, knob, and loop one had, the other had a corresponding blank, hole, or socket. They were a perfect fit.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“Can you hold the tension of those two opposites and make the resulting pain meaningful?”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“You can’t give what you don’t have,”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“I remember you saying once-and I'm surely going to misquote you here, so please forgive me in advance-that Jung believed neuroses are the psyche's best response to the crisis at hand and, while we always want to work toward healing and stabilizing psyche, we should also honor, or at least acknowledge, its valiant attempts to protect us.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“need to avoid serving our neuroses, because it separates us from the Self and therefore limits our ability to help God manifest in the here and now.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“while the unconscious often speaks to us through our dreams, sometimes our awake selves need to make our own dreams.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“I have many childhood wounds, many broken places inside, but that allows me to feel and understand the pain of high school students in a way that many of their less broken—or maybe less conscious—parents cannot.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“Jung believed neuroses are the psyche’s best response to the crisis at hand and, while we always want to work toward healing and stabilizing psyche, we should also honor, or at least acknowledge, its valiant attempts to protect us.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“It was strange to think of being “exposed” to my mother, like she was radiation or strong sun on a hazy day—something that could give me cancer.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“that Jung believed neuroses are the psyche’s best response to the crisis at hand and, while we always want to work toward healing and stabilizing psyche, we should also honor, or at least acknowledge, its valiant attempts to protect us.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“Just true depictions of whole people, each with both a shadow and a light side.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“she knew better than to break our man spell with words or by entering, which I appreciated greatly.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“I could feel the power of what the best of my soul was doing”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“And I just couldn't stop circling our small house. Round and round I went, dozens of times. Maybe even hundreds. I didn't understand the compulsion until many years later, when I realized that I was moving in a counterclockwise circle. Now I think maybe I was literally trying to turn back time somehow, pushing an imaginary minute hand around the imaginary dial over and over in an attempt to buy another shot to get whatever it was I was supposed to have received during my formative years--exactly what I would spend the bulk of my adult years trying to give to the children of strangers.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“As I strode home I knew I didn’t need another second to decide anything. I would never align myself with a politician who could label a teenaged boy—with whom she’d never exchanged a word—a psychopath. My answer was a unanimous no. A billion times no.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“numinous.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“Why don’t they love us? Our moms?” “You can’t give what you don’t have,”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“You did—and I clearly remember this because of the impact it’s had—introduce me to the term “father hunger,” which resonated immediately with me, probably because I have always had tremendous father hunger. I’ve been thinking long and hard about what you once said about redeeming the father by healing the self and, therefore, breaking the cycle of pain, which men hand down generationally forever, until a son steps up and actively stops it.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“giving me a lens to see and a cipher to translate the chaos into meaning and maybe even purpose.”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

“It’s where you go to restore your faith in humanity! It’s where you go to believe! To laugh and cry and smile like a kid again,”
― Matthew Quick, We Are the Light