All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
– Octavia Butler
Evolution is an eternal unfoldment. Life reveals itself to whoever is receptive to it.
– Ernest Holmes, “Can We Talk to God?”, page 17.3
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.
– Brené Brown
There is an irresistible potential pressing against everyone for self-expression. If we listen, we shall hear it, not as a voice but as a feeling, as a Divine urge to express.
– Ernest Holmes, “Creative Living”
Every one of us has in back of us the potential of the Universe.
– Ernest Holmes, “Creative Living”
Comparison is the thief of joy.
– Anonymous
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I said to the sun, “Tell me about the Big Bang.” The sun said, “It hurts to become.”
— Andrea Gibson
There is no end to the Divine Nature and therefore no end to the possibility of our expressing It.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Science of Mind,” page 490.5
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
— Oprah Winfrey
We are, therefore, members of the Universe, and being members of that which unites everything, we are some part of each other.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Science of Mind,” page 313.4
The road to self-discovery often calls for the clearing away of the underbrush of ignorance, fear, superstition, and a sense of isolation that has made us feel we were unworthy, unheld and lost.
— Ernest Holmes, “Richer Living,” page 5.1
Spiritual-mindedness is a persistent and consistent attempt to feel the Divine everywhere and in all things.
— Ernest Holmes, “Discover a Richer Life,” page 23
If you go deep enough into the personal, you reach the universal.
— André Gide
Everything in the universe is a unique individualization or expression of the One Thing, which is the cause of all things.
— Ernest Holmes, “Thoughts Are Things”
Interbeing is the understanding that nothing exists separately from anything else. We are all interconnected.
— Thich Nhất Hạnh
The more completely we are able to see God in everything, the more completely will the one God in all things respond to us.
— Ernest Holmes
There is something that waits on our recognition to spring into being, bringing with it all the Power in the Universe.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Creative Mind and Success,” page 31
When you are friends with your storm, you dance, instead of getting blown away.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, “Night of a Thousand Thoughts”
Belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.
— Brené Brown
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
— Desmond Tutu
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
— Howard Thurman
We exist for the purpose of self-expression. The Infinite has already implanted within us an instinctive intuition, which is the spiritual knowledge of good. Our whole growth results from an inner awakening.
— Ernest Holmes, “Freedom From Stress,” page 24