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“How couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes?”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Recognize the call as a prime fact of human existence; (b) align life with it; (c) find the common sense to realize that accidents, including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to, belong to the pattern of the image, are necessary to it, and help fulfill it. A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away.”
― The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
― The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
“We become the prayer we pray.
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― The Love of Devotion
― The Love of Devotion
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Fear, like love, can become a call into consciousness; one meets the unconscious, the unknown, the numinous and uncontrollable by keeping in touch with fear, which elevates the blind instinctual panic of the sheep into the knowing, cunning, fearful awe of the shepherd.”
― Pan and the Nightmare
― Pan and the Nightmare
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