“The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life…labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION.”
― The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
― The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.”
― The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
― The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”
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“A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.”
― The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
― The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
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