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Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn’t know how to quit, because it doesn’t know how to lie.
‘An amateur is anyone who hasn’t learned how not to do it,’ I said.
freedom was more important to me than my life.
are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become.
Love the truth that you find in the hearts of others. Always listen to the voice of love in your own heart.
If the hour comes, and there’s no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we are, is the only story of us that isn’t told by someone else.
‘It doesn’t matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn’t even matter what you are. It’s what you try to be that counts.’
What we do in life, more than what we think or say, is what we are.
The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it’s our will alone that leads us to one or the other.
Loyalty is something you need for things you don’t love enough. When you love enough, loyalty isn’t even a question.
do not do to others, what you would not have them do to you.
The fall and summit within, what we do, and what we choose to become, are ours alone, as they should be, and must be.
Faith is belief without fear,
for me it isn’t how long you wait for something that counts, it’s the quality of the wait.
‘Meaning is not an attribute of life. Meaning is an attribute of will. Purpose is an attribute of life.’
‘Meaning is an attribute of Will,’ Idriss continued. ‘The valid question is what is the purpose of Life?’ ‘Very well,’ Let Me See said, chuckling, ‘what is the purpose of life?’ ‘The purpose of life is to express the set of positive characteristics to the most sophisticated degree that you can, by connecting with pure intention to others, and our planet, and to the Divine Source of all things.’ ‘How do you define these positive characteristics, master-ji?’ Doubtful asked. ‘In which sacred texts can we find them?’ ‘The set of positive characteristics is found everywhere, in every place where
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‘Things that we know, that we don’t have to know, in order to survive. Extra knowledge, about everything.’ ‘We know things,’ Ambitious said. ‘That is hardly a revelation. And we can shape our behaviour. Where do you see purpose in this, master-ji?’ ‘Without either one of those things,’ Idriss continued, ‘we could not claim to have a destiny. But with both of them in place, the fact of our destiny is undeniable.’
‘Destiny is the treasure we find in the awareness of death.’
‘we are the only species with the capacity to be more than we are, perhaps even more than we dream we are, and the potential to get wherever it is that we choose to go.’
‘Destiny is the ability to focus spiritual energy, in the form of will, to change the future course of our lives. We are all doing this, to a greater or lesser extent, in all our lives, and in the collective life of our species. We are living directed lives already, and it is up to us to realise it, and to direct them more positively.’
