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

- Michael Meade

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…

- Michael Meade

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

- Michael Meade

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 …

- Michael Meade

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…

- Michael Meade

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 …

- Michael Meade

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

- Michael Meade

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…

- Michael Meade

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.

- Michael Meade