Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.