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Only the yoke for the thousand necks is still lacking: the one goal is lacking. Humanity still has no goal.”1
“As Plotkin reminds, “Your soul is transpersonal and other because it is deeper and far more expansive than your conscious mind…. The soul is the sacred realm of our most heartfelt purposes, our unique meanings, and the ultimate significance of our individual lives.”
― Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
― Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
“In 1875, when young Max Planck announced his interest in physics, the chairman of his physics department suggested he study something more exciting. Physics, he said, was just about complete: “All the important discoveries have already been made.”
― Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
― Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
“As a friend of mine put it, “Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing.” When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.”
― Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
― Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are really princesses who are waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. RILKE Letters to a Young Poet”
― Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
― Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
“Divine pride, or remembering one’s ultimate identity as a deity, is qualitatively different from arrogance, for it is not motivated by a sense of deficiency or compensatory self-aggrandisement…. When a woman reclaims her divine identity, she does not seek outer sources of approval, for a firm, unshakable basis for self-esteem emanates from the depths of her own being.”
― Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
― Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
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