Kindle Notes & Highlights
“When we truly open our hearts to each other, there is no burden too heavy for us to carry together, there is no pain too deep for us to hold in each other’s arms. And it’s in that place—of feeling the Earth’s injuries, and feeling it with each other—that the alchemy emerges. It’s in the cauldron of sharing our grief with our community, of gazing at it together and not looking away, that the heartbreak turns to hope.” Jeremy Lent
An unfurling work in progress. We are perpetual works in progress, fumbling along the path, clambering for meaning.
“In Western cultures, we rarely enter the underworld except when abducted, by a great loss or depression.” Bill Plotkin - Soulcraft
Everything felt false. A falseness only heartbreak reveals.
Initiation comes from the Latin word “initium” which means to begin. Throughout our lives, we cross a litany of thresholds. Thresholds of no return begin with initiation, where the line crossed is erased when we first step foot on the other side. There’s no turning back.
“The issue is not simply the question of life or death; the real issue is not being fully alive, for that is also a kind of death.” Michael Meade - Awakening the Soul
“To stay with that shakiness - to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge - that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic - this is the spiritual path.” Pema Chodron - When Things Fall Apart
"The search is over when you realize that the true and lasting fulfillment you have been searching for is found to be nowhere other than right where you are. It is here. It is in you, it is in me, it is in all life, both sentient and insentient. It is everywhere.” Gangaji - Diamond in Your Pocket
Buckminster Fuller would say, Unity is Plural at minimum two. High and low. Spirit and soul. Death and birth. Love and hurt.
“Be sceptical of the quick route. It’s truly what’s got us into a thousand unruly messes. And not the kind the poets praise.” Martin Shaw - Courting the Wild Twin
rediscovered how to be in “religio” or deep communion with the universe. In deep communion with my own signs of nature. In the deepest of communion with my own Signature Sound.
“A master who was once asked, What is the Tao—the Way? replied, Walk on. Actually, Go! As we say, Go, man! Go! Go, go. To be stopped at a certain point is what is called ‘having a doubt,’ as when one fumbles, or wobbles, or hesitates about something—trying to find the right solution for the circumstances by thinking it out in a situation where there really is no time to think it out.” Alan Watts - Out of Our Mind
“With the anam cara you could share your innermost self, your mind, and your heart. This friendship was an act of recognition and belonging. When you had an anam cara, your friendship cut across all convention, morality, and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way with the “friend of your soul.” John O’ Donahoe - Anam Cara
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” Leo Tolstoy - Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
The origin of the word ‘clue’, Michael Meade writes in The Genius Myth, is from the Saxon word ‘clew.’ It means a ball of thread.
“We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.” Satish Kumar
"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridgeroom, taking the world into my arms." Mary Oliver - "When Death Comes" from New and Selected Poems
