Life is movement. Movement is change.

Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose. – Neale Donald Walsh

“That true, soulful me will always be in the dark. That’s why we need to free ourselves from the didactic model where light is good and dark is evil, for it cuts us off from the mystery of our inner and unseen world, a world that is much vaster than the seen world. A cut flower only lasts a week at most, but a flower attached to its roots can be reborrn season after season. When it’s connected to the dark within, its very nature is to seek the light. To be cut off from one’s inner source, what Dylan Thomas calls “the force that through one green fuse drives the flower”, leaves us afraid to close our eyes, sit in the dark, listen to the silence, savor the emptiness, fall into the lap of the Cosmic Mother. Saddest of all, it prevents us from appreciating the holiness of each other.”

Gabriele Roth

“Without sacrifice nothing can be attained. But if there is anything in the world that people do not understand it is the idea of sacrifice. They think they have to sacrifice something that they have. For example, I once said that they must sacrifice “faith”, “tranquility”, “health”. They understand this literally. But then the point is that they have not got either faith, or tranquility, or health. All these words must be taken in quotation marks. In actual fact they have to sacrifice only what they imagine they have and which in reality they do not have. They must sacrifice their fantasies. But this is difficult for them, very difficult. It is much easier to sacrifice real things.”

G. I. Gurdjieff