All quotes from
Erwin's book
When love does not come to you, it breaks your heart, but when you
do not give love away, it hardens your heart.
Love reminds us that there is a knowing beyond
reason.
Most of us don’t sell our souls to the devil; we
just give them away.
Contrary to what you may have been told all your life, God is not
offended by questions.
It may seem way too simple, but the world will change when we change.
Most of us want God to fix every wrong choice we
make without taking from us our right to choose wrongly. We want to make God into our own person
pooper-scooper following right behind us, cleaning up our mess.
It was a fifteen year old boy, blinded by a
tragic accident, who found 63 ways to use a 6-dot cell to communicate meaning.
Imagine finding a way to make 6 dots tell any story, communicate any theory,
bring meaning into a world gone dark.
When you feel something deeply, it’s a true
feeling, but it doesn’t mean that it should become the basis of all
reality. Our emotions can be a turbulent
ocean constantly changing in response to our circumstances.
If you conclude life is meaningless, your story
ends before you do. You may never make
the connection, but the cynicism, bitterness, despair, and emptiness eating
away at you have everything to do with your need to believe in something or
someone.
If you were meant to fly, not even running really
fast is that impressive.
To be reincarnated is not a gift, but a declaration that you have
not yet lived your life well enough.
There is a reason for our existence, a reason to
live, and if we can’t find it, we’ll just make it up. And if we lack
imagination, then we’ll just medicate ourselves, sedate ourselves, intoxicate
ourselves, indulge ourselves, deceive ourselves, or just simply come to the end
of ourselves.
Without hope your life may not come to an end,
but it does come to a stop.
All of us are called to a place we have not
been. Our lives were always intended to
be journeys into the unknown.
Evil never looks for permission.
It’s amazing how much we can endure when we are
convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
As children we assume that greatness is within our grasp. Whatever inspires us, we begin to dream that
one day we will be the best. It is only
as we lose our childlike innocence that we begin to settle for far less. A part of growing up seems to be acquiescing
to mediocrity. It’s easy to say that
we’re just becoming realistic, that it’s just a part of growing up. But, in fact, it’s the death of our
souls. When we stop dreaming, we start
dying.
Your soul longs to become, and you can try to ignore it, but soon
you will find yourself hating your life and despising everyone who refuses to
give up on his or her dreams.
We’re more self-absorbed but less self-aware. We don’t know who we are.
When we are optimistic about the future, we find the energy to
create it.
Eventually it hits you: you cannot take love; you have to give
it. Love is a gift that cannot be stolen.
The farther we move from community, the closer we move to violence.
