Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.
In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.
Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.
I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights...
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen.
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
It isn’t the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.
About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.
We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.
People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.
The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.
I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.
What people regard as vanity – leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten – I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.