“I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest-- not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody.”
― The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
― The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
“As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.”
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“If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.”
― The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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