STEPHAN RECHTSCHAFFEN
When we move into the deepest level of authenticity, what we find is a true sense of happiness begins to occur. The happiness that is most deeply rooted in our inner being, and this is a happiness that is associated with the deepest level of success, because success is not about making money, it's not about fame. It's coming into the authentic being that we are.
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH
Change is very scary. Even if you know that a year from now you could be living your dream, taking that first step is scary. That's what I mean when I say you have to leap in the dark. It.. it's OK to be frightened. Don't look down as you leap. Spirit is holding the net.
DAVID WHYTE
And that's the moment of faith you see. That if its your own path, you take the gifts that are along the way, and you don't know what they'll be, you don't know how they'll turn out. But if its yours, you take it. And you find out then you're able to give, you have something that's really yours that you can give later, not something you've borrowed in order to follow a path.
Eliot said "Not known because not looked for, not known because not looked for, but heard, half heard in the stillness between two waves of the sea, in the silence between two waves of the sea. Look now, hear now. Always a condition of complete simplicity, a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything."
GERARD FOURNIER
We yearn for our daily moments of awe, what the mystics call the eternal presence in their ecstatic visions. For most of us this takes training. Ecstasy does not just drop from the heavens; eternity does not just open up before us. We have to unlearn our ‘busyness’ and train ourselves to do more than just stop and smell the roses; but to allow that moment to become one of the most significant in our day. Then, strangely enough, we begin to perceive a whole different world before us.
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