“Once you get on the path leading to your success, the devil will try to stop you”
“The devil will put obstacles in your way to make you doubt the Word of God”
“Do not pay attention to those who are trying to stop or hinder you”
“We rarely question the knowledge of the subconscious mind and do not let anything contrary to enter our mind. We refuse to hear any argument against our subconscious knowledge-which has become our belief and faith is the greatest hindrance in knowing the truth and understanding the reality.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“Do the job and do it right, or let someone else do it.”
Source: The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
“We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“I love the inconvenience the same way that I sneakingly love a bad cold: the irresistible disruption to mundane life, forcing you to stop for a while and step outside your normal habits. I love the visual transformation it brings about, that recolouring of the world into sparkling white, the way that the rules change so that everybody says hello as they pass. I love what it does to the light, the purplish clouds that loom before it descends, and the way it announces itself from behind your curtains in the morning, glowing a diffuse whiteness that can only mean snow. Heading out in a snowstorm to catch the flakes on my gloves, I love the feeling of it fresh underfoot. I am rarely childlike and playful except in snow. It swings me into reverse gear.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Snow creates that quality of awe in the face of a power greater than ours. It epitomises the aesthetic notion of the sublime, in which greatness and beauty couple to overcome you—a small, frail human—entirely.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“When it’s really cold, the snow makes a lovely noise underfoot, and it’s like the air is full of stars.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“I often turn to children’s books at times like these, when I’m yearning to escape into a world that is beautifully rendered and complex, yet soothingly familiar.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times