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 and meaning comes towards you.
Interpretation
Embracing your life's journey allows for deeper understanding and creativity to unfold.
In this quote, Michael Meade emphasizes the importance of engaging deeply with one's own life narrative. As individuals delve into their personal stories, they not only discover new dimensions of themselves and their experiences but also unlock the vast possibilities of imagination and meaning that the world offers. The idea suggests that by exploring and embracing our unique paths, we can cultivate a richer inner and outer life.
In practice
Use this quote during a motivational speech about embracing personal growth.
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 wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit in the student and because it required an awakened spirit in the teachers. Spirit to spirit, genius to genius, soul to soul go the true lessons that help young people become themselves. Ultimately, each person holds the key to the story trying to be lived from within, but first someone else must help unlock the mystery of one’s life.
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 they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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