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Men had a terrible tendency to institutionalize life. Fear of life, born from their own willful estrangement from it, made men build fortresses to hold what they had chosen to select from life.

“Life can have no more than a passing regard for the conventions which men create”

“Wind and spirit, earth and being, rain and doing, lightning and awareness imperative, thunder and the word, seed and sower, all are one: and it is necessary only for man to ask for his deed to be chosen and to pray for sower within to sow it through the deed and the act of himself, and then the harvest for all will be golden and great.”

“What he meant by ‘awareness’ was perhaps a sense of the as yet but unimagined wholeness of life; a recognition that one could live freely on the frontiers of one’s being where the known was still contained in the infinite unknown, and where there could be a continual crossing and re-crossing of tentative borders, like lone hunters returning from perilous sojourns in great forests.”

“Ghosts do not follow physical death, but rather they precede life. The only death the spirit recognizes is the denial of birth to that which strives to be born: those realities in ourselves that we have not allowed to live. The real ghost is a strange, persistent beggar at a narrow door asking to be born; asking, again, again and again for admission at the gateway of our lives.”

“Even if she cannot sustain awareness, it does not matter as long as she is truly reflective some of the time. If she gets into the habit of addressing the Magnificent One as if he were her servant, never questioning the manner in which she is expressing herself, merely letting whatever pops into her head fall out of her mouth, spilling words she has learned by simple repetition, she is not praying.”