124 quotes found
“Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.”
“A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.”
“A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life.”
“Education at a deep level means to lead out what is trying to be born from within. The job of a true teacher is to help awaken the inner pupil that has its own way of being and unique way of percei...”
“Mentoring is an archetypal activity that has timeless elements which can connect us to the universal ground where nature renews itself and culture becomes reimagined. Youth and elder meet where the...”
“The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from th...”
“What good is a dream that doesnt test the mettle of the dreamer? What good is a path that doesnt carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exp...”
“What good is a path that doesnt carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.”
“As people used to say, What the heart loves is the cure. The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart car...”
“Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open and exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, l...”
“Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.”
“The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and bli...”
“In order to understand the conditions we are in, we must place ourselves not in the mainstream of life but in the timeless stream of myth. As the fabric of life loosens, the veil between this world...”
“When seen with imagination, all things shift toward meaning, releasing energies that are hidden within appearances, releasing the inner wings of spirit, opening wide the doors to healing and wholen...”
“Some might ask whether the path is before us or within us. The answer is: Yes. We are both driven from within by our resident spirit and something outside calls forth the genius within us.”
“We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or wha...”
“What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually ...”
“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of history are loosely stitched upon the endless loom of eternity. Secretly, we ar...”
“Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world.”
“Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives, or we surrender to something greater than ourselves. The water of ...”
