If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you. - Gary Zukav

Each solstice shows us that we can choose. We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the Universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to Life when each arrives.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

When you do not take your interactions so personally, you will be able to see that each offers you a choice — to see yourself as a victim who reacts to the circumstances of your life, or as a creator who chooses your responses to them.