“Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“Without continuous, methodical, conscious efforts to renew ourselves, we can become stuck in the “valley of dry bones”.”
Source: Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom
“During our wilderness journey, the Lord offers us spiritual renewal. He calls us into sacred rest. It is a safe place of comfort. A peaceful haven. A sanctuary for our soul.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“As we said before, initiation lies at the core of any genuine
human life. And this is true for two reasons. The first is that any
genuine human life implies profound crises, ordeals, suffering, loss
and reconquest of self, "death and resurrection." The second is
that, whatever degree of fulfillment it may have brought him, at a
certain moment every man sees his life as a failure. This vision
does not arise from a moral judgment made on his past, but from
an obscure feeling that he has missed his vocation; that he has
betrayed the best that was in him. In such moments of total crisis,
only one hope seems to offer any issue-the hope of beginning
life over again. This means, in short, that the man undergoing such
a crisis dreams of new, regenerated life, fully realized and significant. This is something other and far more than the obscure
desire of every human soul to renew itself periodically, as the
cosmos is renewed. The hope and dream of these moments of
total crisis are to obtain a definitive and total renovatio, a renewal
capable of transmuting life. Such a renewal is the result of every
genuine religious conversion.”
Source: Rites and Symbols of Initiation
“Spiritual renewal and the transformation of a nation, country, or a city cannot take place unless there is first renewal and transformation in the individual.”
“I wasn't a stranger on this trip. I was a seeker, I was a daughter, a friend, a sister, an aunt, a niece, but most of all, I was true to myself. I honored a part of me that was weary, that had been bruised, challenged, broken, and used up. I asked God to renew my spirit and help me be grateful for the blessings in my life, and He did.”
Source: Riding Soul-O
“[B]lossom anew every day. ... A practitioner, like the water, should continue to flow endlessly toward the great sea. Today’s flower is not the same as the one that blossomed yesterday. And a practitioner, like a flower, should blossom anew every day.”
Source: The Sound of Water, The Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Korean Monk
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”
“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously
signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage
to a new modality of existence-that of a being "born to spirit,"
that is, a being that does not live solely in an immediate reality.
Thus initiatory death forms an integral part of the mystical process
by which the novice becomes another, fashioned in accordance with
the model revealed by the Gods or the mythical Ancestors. This
is as much as to say that one becomes truly a man in proportion
as one ceases to be a natural man and resembles a Supernatural
Being.”
Source: Rites and Symbols of Initiation
“Although personal calling I sense,
Who am I? even if I am,
I don't know.”
Source: Circling: 1978-1987