The Hero Within Quotes

“No matter how much people want to feel loved, appreciated, and a part of things, they will be lonely until they make a commitment to themselves, a commitment that is so total that they will give up community and love, if necessary, to be fully who they are.”
― Carol S. Pearson, Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“The hero’s journey requires us to find our uniqueness. We simply cannot do that without enough solitude to find out who we are. Most of us need some time alone every day just to stay clear.”
― Carol S. Pearson, Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Our capacity to give away speaks to the universe of our willingness to receive.”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Until we are willing to give ourselves over to life, we always will be possessed by death.”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Abandonment actually is quite facilitative at this stage. When Wanderers do not let another in, whether it is parent, lover, therapist, analyst, or teacher, it is important for that helper to pull away so that Wanderers can experience fully the aloneness they have created for their own growth. Otherwise, they will be diverted from recognizing their loneliness by fighting off the assaults of others against their walls.”
― Carol S. Pearson, Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Much of the appeal of dogma in religion is that it gives its followers rules to follow that rescue them from having to find out who they are and what they really think.”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Virtue often is used to camouflage cowardice.”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“The hero’s journey requires us to find our uniqueness. We simply cannot do that without enough solitude to find out who we are.”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Those who are hiding out in cowardice want company!”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Идеята за доказване на героизма е свързана със схващането, че той е дефицитна стока и че съществува човешка йерархия. Когато разберем, че истинската задача не е да напрягаме сили, за да докажем способностите си, а да си позволим да бъдем такива, каквито сме, нещата изглеждат съвсем различно.”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Измисляме приказки за света и до голяма степен изживяваме техните сюжети. Какъв е животът ни, много зависи от сценария, който възприемаме съзнателно, или по-вероятно несъзнателно.”
― Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Paradoxically, it is in resolving what sometimes seems an intolerable opposition between parental or professional responsibilities and personal exploration that people often find out more fully who they are. They come to know themselves moment by moment by the decisions they make, trying to reconcile their care for others with their responsibility to themselves. Maturity comes with that curious mixture of taking responsibility for our prior choices while being as imaginative as possible in finding ways to continue our journeys.”
― Carol S. Pearson, Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By

“Of course, life does not always follow our scripts. We get feedback from what really happens; this sharpens our reality principle so that we can think things through more intelligently the next time. The point is, we live out some options and we imagine our way through others. In either case, we learn what we want, what we believe in, what our values are. We will never know who we are and what we want if we just stay in our old ruts. This is why we must wander a bit to grow.”
― Carol S. Pearson, Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.: Six Archetypes We Live By