Soul Candy

“What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss.”    ~ Joseph Campbell ~

“…go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, …work with these stories from your life – your life – not someone else’s life – water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.”    ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~

“Rules for Being Human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, ‘life.’
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The ‘failed’ experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately ‘work.’
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. ‘There’ is no better a place than ‘here.’ When your ‘there’ has become a ‘here’, you will simply obtain another ‘there’ that will again look better than ‘here.’
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all of this.”    ~ Cherie Carter Scott ~

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people…”    ~ Victor Borge ~

“Individuation seems to be the innate urge of life to realize itself consciously. The transpersonal life energy, in the process of self-unfolding, uses human consciousness, a product of itself, as an instrument for its own self-realization.”    ~ Edward F. Edinger ~

“Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary…a holy place.  A Divine Center, a speaking voice, to which we may continually return.  Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-worn lives, warning us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home to Itself to be awakened…”    ~ Thomas Kelly ~

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err…”     ~ Mohandas Gandhi ~

“You cannot direct which way the winds of adversity will blow, but you can adjust your sails…”      ~ Shantidasa ~

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you discover will be wonderful.  What you discover will be yourself…”    ~ Alan Alda ~

“No one can know God who has not first known himself.  Go to the depths of the soul, the secret place…to the roots, to the heights, for all that God can do is focused there…”    ~ Meister Eckhart ~

“You are never alone because you are full of all the memories, all the conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday;  your mind is never clear of all the rubbish it has accumulated.  To be alone, you must die to the past.  When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider.  The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocence that frees the mind from sorrow.”    ~ Krishnamurti ~

“Life is a flower of which love is the honey…”    ~ Victor Hugo ~