
“Life roars at us when it wants or needs us to change. Ultimately, change means trans formation, a shifting from one form to another that involves the magic of creation. The trouble with entrenched oppositions is that each side becomes increasingly one-sided and single minded and unable to grow or meaningfully change. In the blindness of fear and the willfulness of abstract beliefs, people forget or reject the unseen yet essential unity that underlies all the oppositions in life.”
― Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
― Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
“If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.”
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“The real treasure of life, the one difficult to find and hard to attain, is never far from us. That’s an unwritten rule on this earth. What we desperately desire and need most is buried in the recesses of our innermost being all along. This is the open secret found in many traditions and told in many ways. Yet it remains a secret
because trusting in oneself remains one of the hardest things to do in life.”
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because trusting in oneself remains one of the hardest things to do in life.”
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“Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.”
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“Liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of the soul.”
― Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
― Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
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