There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.
Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.
The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.
Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.
The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.
Those He loves most He tests most.
By accepting one’s own shadow one gives unconditional love to all beings.
Of all the qualities in your being, the one that is most godlike is creativity.
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return.
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