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“You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.”

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Sam Keen, born in 1931, is a renowned American author whose works span across philosophy, psychology, religion, and anthropology, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.”

“One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.”

World Needs Hands Able Ought Involved Detached

Author:Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

“The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.”

Way Action Spheres Illumination Inertia

Author:Swami Prabhavananda

“There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.”

Giving Long Spiritual Fighting Giving Up Spiritual Life Not Giving Up Do Not Give Up No Failure

Book:The Sermon On the Mount According to Vedanta

Source: The Sermon On the Mount According to Vedanta

“If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.”

Ifs Humans Ends Seems Life Is Purpose Heaven Imagination Existence Mankind Eternal Aim Human Life Strife Incarnation Human Existence Devouring

Book:Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel

Source: Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel

“Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.”

Long Self Action Courses Results Responsibility Achieve Skills Increase Alternatives Injury Autonomy

Book:The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy

Source: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy

“Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.”

Walks Voyages Those We Love Piers

Book:The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Source: The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

“If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.”

Ifs Want Writing Mind Novel Divine

Author:Julia Cameron

“It is through your presence that creates your reality. What am I creating? I am a co-creator.”

Reality Creating Creator Your Presence

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.”

Ideas Soul Next Deeper Great Idea Greatest Gifts

Author:Stephen Covey

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