Mike > Mike's Quotes

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

“Intimacy requires mutuality: mutual vulnerability, mutual disclosure and openness, mutual invitation and consent (obvious, but worth stating).”
― Bromleigh McCleneghan, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex – A Theology of Sexuality and Spirituality for Believers

“Edna St. Vincent Millay: “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.”
― Bromleigh McCleneghan, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex – A Theology of Sexuality and Spirituality for Believers

“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling.3”
― Bromleigh McCleneghan, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex – A Theology of Sexuality and Spirituality for Believers

“What is Empire but the predominance of race?’ the English liberal imperialist and prime minister Lord Rosebery observed.”
― Kenan Malik, The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics

“The first was that culture, not biology, was the principal force that shaped human affairs; the second, that humanity comprised a multitude of cultures that could not be ranked on an evolutionary scale, but each of which had to be understood in its own terms.”
― Kenan Malik, The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics

“The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it.”
― Dorothee Sölle, Suffering

“great Sufi poet Rumi. With words that are simple and powerful, he states, “Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
― Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief

“There’s a subtle yet significant difference between leaving our jobs, friends, and romances because we’re complete and staying with them because of the fear that there’s nothing else for us!”
― Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief

“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“Anyone who happens to discover a gift and dares to speak of their abilities is usually regarded with distrust”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others. Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“That as long as we keep God imprisoned in a retributive frame instead of a restorative frame, we really have no substantial good news;”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe