Nothing is difficult that
is wholly desired.
Trials are but lessons
that you failed to learn
presented once again,
so where you made
a faulty choice before
you now can make a better one.
~from the Course in Miracles
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing
does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad
in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)