"What gives value to travel
is fear"..."It is the fact that, at
a certain moment, when we are so far from our
own country...we are seized by a vague fear,
and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection
of old habits...At that moment, we are feverish
but also porous, so that the slightest touch
makes us quiver to the depths of our being. We
come across a cascade of light, and there is
eternity."
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Albert Camus, Notebooks,1935-1942
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The Humanizing Effect of Pain
"
A deep distress hath humanized my soul."
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William Wordsworth
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“God is closest to those
with broken hearts.”
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old Jewish saying
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Facing Our Unknown; Admitting We
Don’t Have the Answers
“
In the middle of this road we call our life
I found myself in a dark wood
Where the true way was wholly lost.”
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Dante, Divine Comedy
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Life is a mystery to be lived,
not a problem to be solved.
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W.B. Yates
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The Gift of Difficult Times: Making
Us Clearer About Our Mission
"
The desert of our lives appears desolate and
unmerciful. We struggle with the challenges it
presents and with the fear those challenges bring
upon us. Not until we are willing to move past
the fear and trust ourselves are we able to emerge
from the desert, ready and equipped for the mission
of our lives."
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Alan Downs - The Fearless Executive, pg 195
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Following Your Heart
"
You may have success in life, but then ask yourself
- what kind of life was it? What good was it
if you've never done the thing you wanted to
do all your life or went where your heart and
soul wanted to go. When you find that feeling,
stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you
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Joseph Campbell
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If you can see your path laid out
ahead of you step by step, then you know it’s
not your path.
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Joseph Campbell
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“There is nothing stable
in the world; uproar’s your only music.”
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Keats
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Hope
Hope… is neither passive waiting nor is
it unrealistic forcing of circumstances that
cannot occur. It is like the crouched tiger,
which will jump only when the moment for jumping
has come… To hope means to be ready at
every moment for that which is not yet born,
and yet not become desperate if there is no birth
in our lifetime.
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Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope, pg. 9
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Being Seen, Listening to Your Heart,
Tapping Into a Greater Knowing
“
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the
heart’s affections and the truth of the
imagination.”
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Keats
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“To be is to be perceived.”
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George Berkeley, an Irish philosopher (1685-1753)
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