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You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer’s night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: ‘Look at the moon!’ The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they’d never seen it.

Creativity and love come from the same source.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril.

Of all of men’s inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.

That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody’s mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you’ve never explored before, what human nature is like.

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

The only death the spirit recognizes is the denial of birth to that which strives to be born: those realities in ourselves that we have not allowed to live. The real ghost is a strange, persistent beggar at a narrow door asking to be born; asking, again and again, for admission at the gateway of our lives. Such ghosts I had, and thus, beyond all reason, I continued to be haunted.

The Seed and the Sower Quotes

Ninety percent of everything we know has been passed along through story.

The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two "hungers". There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning...There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life without meaning.There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you're happy or unhappy. You are content - you are not alone in your Spirit - you belong.

Meaning Quotes

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

Hope Quotes Patience Quotes / Inevitability Quotes Venture to the Interior Quotes

As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.

We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.

Holy fucking feels batman Quotes The Seed and the Sower Quotes

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.