posted April 17, 2013 01:42 AM            

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
Viktor Frankl

Instead of wondering where your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart. For the traveler who knows his direction, there is always a favorable wind.
Stuart Avery Gold

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Buckminster Fuller

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
Gloria Gaither

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
Alexandre Dumas

The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Albert Einstein

It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry

posted April 17, 2013 10:18 AM              

"There is but one sadness and that is for us not to be saints."

"I pray like a robber asking alms
at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire."

posted April 18, 2013 06:17 PM              

SunChild -

I can sympathize with your "interesting" relationship with HPB, and with T's "interesting" relationship with Osho. Both of them strike me as highly suspect. But, then, I have my own "interesting", complicated, and highly suspect relationships (with Nietzsche, with Léon Bloy, and others). They are people I hesistate, and then hasten, to call "great souls". They were, all of them, deeply, profoundly possessed by their daemons, for better, for worse, and to the bitter, bittersweet end.

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If any fantasy holds our contemporary civilization in an unyeilding grip, it is that we are our parents' children and that the primary instrument of your fate is the behavior of your mother and father... If we can so readily accept the Mother-myth, then why not another myth, a different myth, the Platonic one this book proposes? It cannot be the resistance to myth that makes us balk at the acorn theory, since we so gullibly swallow the myth of the Mother. The reason we resist the myth of the acorn, I believe, is that it comes clean. It is not disguised as empirical fact. It states itself openly as a myth.

~ James Hillman, The Soul's Code:
In Search of Character and Calling
Chapter 3 - The Parental Fallacy

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posted April 18, 2013 07:38 PM            

ummmm....

just for the record...

Osho and I broke up a LONG time ago.

No, seriously though. While I do still think he's brilliant and always will.....it's been a long time and.....i'm far away from him now and have been for some time.

posted April 18, 2013 08:20 PM            

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Originally posted by SunChild:
“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.”

-Bertrand Russell

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posted April 19, 2013 10:36 AM              

~ Jelaluddin Rumi

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world... One of the most essential ways of saying "I love you" is being a receptive listener.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

Deep within us -- no matter who we are -- there lives a feeling of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

There's something unique about being a member of a family that really needs you in order to function well. One of the deepest longings a person can have is to feel needed and essential.

Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

posted April 21, 2013 06:43 AM              

Or

Some truths are ugly & some lies are beautiful & sometimes the illusion trumps reality.

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I like the safety of the first one. The second sounds like a deception, but wise at the same time.

posted April 23, 2013 08:58 AM            

And another one from Einstein:

posted April 24, 2013 02:22 PM              

"I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not laws... And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. People must adopt some attitude towards me, and so pass judgment, both on themselves and me."
~ Oscar Wilde

posted April 25, 2013 08:34 AM            

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Originally posted by Heart--Shaped Cross:
Wilde raves about him.

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