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  • #1
    “A false sense of security is the only kind there is.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: security
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  • #2
    “Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions within have no choice but to find enemies to project upon. Enemy simply means a "not-friend;" unless a person deals with the not-friend within they require enemies around them.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: introspection
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  • #3
    “Each life involves an essential errand; not simply the task of survival, but a life-mission embedded in the soul from the beginning.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: purpose-of-life, soul, vocation
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  • #4
    “At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.”
    ― Michael Meade, The Water of Life:Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul
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  • #5
    “Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: creativity, opposition, polarization, politics, religion
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  • #6
    “Run towards the roar,’ the old people used to tell the young ones. When faced with great danger and when people panic and seek a false sense of safety, run towards the roaring and go where you fear to go. For only in facing your fears can you find some safety and a way through. When the world rattles and the end seems near, go towards the roar.”
    ― Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
    tags: danger, face-your-fears, facing-difficulties, inner-strength
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  • #7
    “Life roars at us when it wants or needs us to change. Ultimately, change means trans formation, a shifting from one form to another that involves the magic of creation. The trouble with entrenched oppositions is that each side becomes increasingly one-sided and single minded and unable to grow or meaningfully change. In the blindness of fear and the willfulness of abstract beliefs, people forget or reject the unseen yet essential unity that underlies all the oppositions in life.”
    ― Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
    tags: change, polarization, transformation, unity
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  • #8
    “Liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of the soul.”
    ― Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
    tags: consciousness, liberation, soul
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  • #9
    “The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars; it’s connected to a spark and it wants to burn and it wants to make and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: creativity, generosity, genius, inner-gift, vocation
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  • #10
    “When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: change-the-world, generosity, genius
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  • #11
    “The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it’s a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you’re either going to come out smaller or you are going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: difficult-times, obstacles, response-to-change
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  • #12
    “Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: destiny, fate, genius, soul
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  • #13
    “Inside each one of us there is a mostly hidden, mostly golden, mostly eternal image or aspect of being, similar to the gold that is buried in the earth. We are the earthlings, the children of the earth, and therefore we are a replica, in a sense, of the earth itself. One of the ideas that is important is: As above, so below. As outside, so within.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: as-above-so-below, earth, inner-self, soul
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  • #14
    “The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: change, journey-of-life, navigating-change
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  • #15
    “There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it’s worth dying for, and worth living for as well.”
    ― Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
    tags: inner-self, purpose-of-life, will
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  • #16
    “If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: change-the-world, inner-work, nature
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  • #17
    “What’s secretly in the water
    of modern culture is that people
    enter the world empty.
    That’s a very dangerous idea,
    because if everybody’s empty
    than other people can get us
    to do whatever they want
    because there’s nothing
    in us to stand against it.

    But if we came to do
    something that’s meaningful,
    that involves giving and
    making the world a more
    beautiful, healthy, lively place,
    then you become a difficult person
    to move around and manipulate.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: gifts-and-talents, meaningful-life, service
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  • #18
    “The only choice once your world has been torn apart is to find your genius and live with that. ‘Normal’ is out of the question. The healing for veterans, or anyone going through great tragedy, is finding your natural spirit and your genius that was waiting to be found. That can now become the cohering principle in your life. The idea of patching someone up and back into normal when they’ve had extremely abnormal experiences is a misunderstanding.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: authenticity, genius, healing, inner-gift
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  • #19
    “The real treasure of life, the one difficult to find and hard to attain, is never far from us. That’s an unwritten rule on this earth. What we desperately desire and need most is buried in the recesses of our innermost being all along. This is the open secret found in many traditions and told in many ways. Yet it remains a secret
    because trusting in oneself remains one of the hardest things to do in life.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: difficulty, inner-truth, trust-yourself
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  • #20
    “The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the genius.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: awakening, community, education, genius, inner-voice, vocation
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  • #21
    “An old Celtic proverb boldly places death right at the center of life. ‘Death is the middle of a long life,’ they used to say. Ancient people did things like that; they put death at the center instead of casting it out of sight and leaving such an important subject until the last possible moment. Of course, they lived close to nature and couldn’t help but see how the forest grew from fallen trees and how death seemed to replenish life from fallen members. Only the unwise and the overly fearful think that death is the blind enemy of life.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: celtic-wisdom, death, death-and-dying, fear-of-death, renewal
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