124 quotes found
“There will always be the facts of life to contend with, and there are times when the facts can become overwhelming. Yet, there is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of ea...”
“The only choice once your world has been torn apart is to find your genius and live with that. Normal is out of the question. The healing for veterans, or anyone going through great tragedy, is fin...”
“A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.”
“Whats secretly in the water of modern culture is that people enter the world empty. Thats a very dangerous idea,because if everybodys empty than other people can get us to do whatever they want bec...”
“Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart. Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can become lost. And something in the soul knows how to survive periods of d...”
“Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual ...”
“When we place our immediate conflicts in the territory of an archetypal story we can better see the nature of our problems and find solutions that bring creative imagination to bear in the realm of...”
“Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a mythic condition that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touche...”
“Run towards the roar, the old people used to tell the young ones. When faced with great danger and when people panic and seek a false sense of safety, run towards the roaring and go where you fear ...”
“An old Celtic proverb boldly places death right at the center of life. Death is the middle of a long life, they used to say. Ancient people did things like that; they put death at the center instea...”
“Our deepest longings and the question of who we are intended to be cuts us in half, dividing us within ourselves. At critical stages and significant moments in the course of life, we sink with the ...”
“Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity pos...”
“To awaken to the living dream within ones life and remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for.”
“There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; its worth dying for, and wo...”
“When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.”
“The purpose of conflict is to create.”
“When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.”
“The second adventure involves the divine spark hidden in each soul and the dark times require that the inner light of soul be found again. Perhaps there is no greater time to awaken to the adventur...”
“Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.”
“A false sense of security is the only kind there is.”
