The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life..

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?.

The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we be….

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself..

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination ….

A false sense of security is the only kind there is..

In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then….

During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in thei….

A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person..

There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wa….

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow..

Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each cross….

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic ef….

As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual ….

Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spir….

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sus….

Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and be….

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people..