"If you expand you sense of love, of health, and existence, then you are drawn in this life and in others toward those qualities...Those sparks of truth, intuition, love, joy, creativity, and accomplishment gained now, will work for you then as they do now. They are, you see, the only true realities."

-Seth Speaks through Jane Roberts (New World Library)

"In the face of such shape and weight of present misfortune, the voice of the individual artist may seem of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters though times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and societies, even the very civilizations that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith, and the only reality. They are what we find when the ruins are cleared away. And even the smallest and most incomplete offering at this time can be a proud act in defense of that faith."

-unidentified words from Madeleine L'Engle's Two-Part Invention (Harper & Row)