The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
What you resist, persists.
I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.
Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
The unconscious psyche believes in life after death.
The whole point of Jesus’s life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.