Where I Exist~ Donna Tartt

"And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime." 

~ Donna Tartt 

More at  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt

Artwork from Carl Larsson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Larsson

Constant Dynamic Process~ Stephen Batchelor

"A genuine spiritual life is not one consisting of a series of disconnected and undefined experiences occurring at random; it is a constant dynamic process incorporating every element of our being."

~Stephen Batchelor

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Batchelor_(author)

Artwork from Ellie Ling http://www.ellieling.co.uk/

Sense of Joy ~ Kallistos Ware

“If I do not feel a sense of joy in G_d's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to G_d with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.” 

~ Kallistos Ware

More from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallistos_Ware
Artwork from Mary Azarian https://www.maryazarian.com/