Every battle is won before it is fought. ~Sun Tzu

Movement toward full incarnation

Every time you close another door--be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection--you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.

This is a movement toward full incarnation. It leads you to become what you already are--a child of God; it lets you embody more and more the truth of your being; it makes you claim the God within you.

Henri Nouwen ~ The Inner Voice of Love

High expectations!

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." - Charles F. Kettering

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up! - Babe Ruth

"Never confuse movement with action." -Ernest Hemingway

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." ~William S. Burroughs

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
~William S. Burroughs

Truly live

"Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives." -William Wallace

Follow your bliss

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.


~Joseph Campbell

Get away from it all

Getting away from it all
by Marcus Arelius


People try to get away from it all---to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. 

Nowhere you can go is more peaceful---more free of interruptions---than your own soul. Especially if you have other things to rely on. An instant's recollection and there it is: complete tranquility. And by tranquility I mean a kind of harmony. So keep going away from it all---like that. Renew yourself. But keep it brief and basic. A quick visit should be enough to ward off all...and send you back ready to face what awaits you. 

What's there to complain about? People's misbehavior? But take into consideration: that rational beings exist for one another; that doing what's right sometimes requires patience; that no one does the wrong thing deliberately; and the number of people who have feuded and envied and hated and fought and died and been buried; and then keep your mouth shut. 

So keep this refuge in mind: the back roads of your self. Above all, no strain and no stress. Be straightforward. Look at things like a human being, like a citizen, like a mortal. And among the things you turn to, these thoughts: that things have no hold on the soul. They stand there unmoving, outside of it. That disturbance comes only from within---from our own perceptions That everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist.


hat tip to Inward/Outward blog

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