Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don’t seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.
~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
*pathwriter’s note: Please go to http://shop.holstee.com/pages/about to read about the origin of the poster (and buy one!)
I continue to be a fan of this old soul in a young man’s body…
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
~Elbert Hubbard
If you can maintain your sense of humor, no matter what or whom you encounter, you’ve found at least one of the paths to inner peace.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
“Empty time is a powerful medicine that can make us more joyful and resilient, but it’s strangely hard to swallow. In our culture, the very word empty has negative connotations: loss, need, desolation, hopelessness. Our ambivalence toward doing nothing creates what psychologists call an approach-avoidance response: We yearn for a powerful source of liberation that is right under our noses, and we’ll do almost anything to avoid it.”
~Martha Beck, “Making Time for Nothing”
To read the entire article…
In the universe, there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between there are doors.
~William Blake
If it doesn’t light you up, you’re not the right person for the job.
~Danielle LaPorte, The Firestarter Sesssions
I’ve become a big Danielle LaPorte fan in the past few months. Recently, on her blog, she posed a question to her readers: What’s one dumb thing you used to believe in?
I had to think about this, not because I didn’t think I’d ever believed in dumb things, but because I couldn’t decide which dumb thing to answer with. Continue reading
“Overconnection is my major occupational hazard. My job is all about soulfully linking with others, and this is truly as much fun as I’ve ever had with my clothes on, but after doing this with many people for many hours, I often feel as if I’ve watched ten great movies back-to-back: dazed, frazzled, longing for silent solitude. I’m not up to gracious separation; I need quick-and-dirty ways to save my sanity, right now.” ~Martha Beck
To read Martha’s humorous but wise advice on disconnecting:
http://marthabeck.com/2011/12/logging-off-the-power-of-disconnection/
No matter where we dig or climb,
we come upon the fire we left untended.
Carl Jung had a dream that he was cutting a path in the woods, unsure where it was leading, but working hard at it nonetheless. Tired and sweating, he came upon a cabin in a clearing. He dropped his tools and approached the cabin. Through the window he saw a being in prayer at a simple altar. The door was open and Jung went in. As he drew closer, he realized that the being in prayer was himself and that his life of cutting a path was this being’s dream. Continue reading
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