“Life is rich. If you carefully observe a meadow, you realize that each plant is a different color of green, each ladybug is different from the other. Many of us know the anecdote of the man who photographed snowflakes and discovered that each one was different: thousands of millions of snowflakes, each one with its own shape. That is to say, everything is variety, difference. But, at the same time, everything communicates; we are united by secret threads. Life is a miraculous creation. All of reality is a pure union of mental and emotional threads.”
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
“For all that I tried to be more than what I am, I am not more than what I am. It is necessary to be conscious of what we are. The greatest power of your life is to be able to help, and the greatest blessing man has is to be able to live in peace.”
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
“If you do not tell me what is your purpose in life, I cannot heal you.” So I understood that if a ship crosses the sea without a purpose, it will arrive at no port. What prevents life from devouring us is having a purpose. The higher it is, the further it will carry us.”
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
“That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it. Man, when he achieves an adequate level of consciousness, feels the sacred in everything around him, and the world takes on this essence. The plants, the rocks, the joke: they are sacred; these things are consecrated.”
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
“Education derives from the verb educe, which means “to draw forth from within.” The original teaching method of Socrates has been largely displaced by professorial deference to received scholarly authority. By and large, our students are taught how to take exams but not to think, write, or find their own path.”
― Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
― Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
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