Sublime

in Mia’s accepting presence she’d become curious and kind and open, as if under a magic spell. She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as if she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.

The human heart can be fickle: it opens then closes, it loves then hates, it accepts then rejects, it trusts then fears. If it is not grounded in the vast Spiritual Heart, the human heart feels like an orphan, like a child without its mother. The human heart is never separate from the Spiritual Heart, but by attaching to its emotions it becomes unc

Choose to be open to anything at all happening, to hold nothing fixed, to hold no certainty except that magic is a possibility. And that possibility is magic.

a spiritual dowry that gives us the keys to the kingdom.