Quotes on Inspirational

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.

Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

No man does anything from a single motive.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.