Say Yes Quotes

“Wonder is not an exterior destination to arrive at, like a mountaintop view, or a once in a lifetime concert. Those experiences may bring that feeling. But wonder is an internal filter through which we learn to look at life.

This filter is always there, but it is most easily accessible to us in new situations, when we don't have a narrative about what's happening yet. If we want to feel the rapturous experience of being alive more often, then removing the filter of familiarity is the practice we most need to adopt.”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“This isn't a journey of you becoming the perfect version of yourself; that's what cults are built on.

This is the journey about receiving the gift of yourself - the beautiful, vulnerable you... that you're the kind of person who is relatable, touchable, and in solidarity with others on the journey of life.”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“Renowned professor and mythologist Joseph Campbell said:

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an *experience of being alive*, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance on our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“Vulnerability is our relationship to our weaknesses, not our weaknesses themselves.

It's the feeling we have when confronted with our imperfections. The image of being vulnerable is that of taking off our armor, making ourselves available to be intimate, to be touchable. To own your vulnerabilities is a move of trust, a move of solidarity.”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“King David in Psalm 37 writes "Take delight in the Giver, and He will give you the desires of your heart," intimating that the secret to finding our way in the world is more about cooperating with God than appeasing God.

That the Giver of life is also the Giver of our desires, which means that life has an invitational co-creative nature to it...

Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“The Voice of Giving Up is like a wandering T-Rex standing outside your bedroom window ready to devour any dreams that may be trying to see the light of day.”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream