“I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don’t feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality,…
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization.” ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces That right there, my friend, is why we do…
“I stand willingly in the way of storms, that all my dead leaves may swirl away and be lost.” ~ Ruth St. Denis Just as the trees lose their leaves, snakes shed their skin, and we lose our baby teeth, all growth requires change to break free of current limitations. Of course, while in the…