When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.
There’s an African proverb: ‘When death finds you, may it find you alive.’ Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.
Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.
When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.
A false sense of security is the only kind there is.
As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That’s when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.
The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.