Alan Quotes

Continual prayer is a lifestyle."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The older we get, the more we become ourselves.

He had existed for a long time and was fluent in many languages - most of them…dead ones.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus by candle light".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?

I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Forgiveness doesn’t make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.

Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Forgiveness is a practiced and fervrent process".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life.

Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes, For he’s a burning atmospheric sigh:One blaze of liquid flame on midnight sky, Soft orbital decay, and last goodbye.

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst possible thing had happened to her as well.

Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.

I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE'S MIS

We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…

Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.

‎"The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"~ R. Alan Woods

How can I be so captured by my own imagination that I can truly connect both to the person I'm playing and to the person I'm playing wi

Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.

Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

The link between the spirit and the mind is the deep heart".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

And it's only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We can make love amongst the gods, or we can screw on a dirty mattress. It's our choice.

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.

We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.

It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery"~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.

Our healing is in His hands".~R. Alan Woods [2012]