YOUNG WOMAN: When you go on like this, you know what you sound like? YOUNG MAN: I sound like a sensible fucking man, is what I sound like. YOUNG WOMAN: You sound like a duck. (imitates a duck) Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack…
“The ego is a collection of ideas that we carry around about ourselves that says …I am what I have, I am what I do, I am what other people think about me, I am separate from what is missing in my life.”
God has many names, you know. Jehovah, Almighty, Everlasting Father, Alpha and Omega … But do you know what He calls Himself? “I Am.” Ask God who He is, and that is what He’ll tell you. “I Am.” Not “I was” or “I’m going to be.” But “I am.” “I am here for you now because that’s where you need Me.” And if God is here, right here, right now, what is there to fear?
— Martha Williamson, When Angels Speak: Inspiration From Touched By An Angel
“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don’t necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can’t accept, but still a religion, it doesn’t matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn’t the fear of God but the upholding of one’s own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that: “A quiet conscience mades one strong!”
