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    “My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s loveliness.”

    Michelangelo, via Sunbeams (Page 150)

      “This is the true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

      George Bernard Shaw, via Sunbeams (Page 140)

        “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.”

        Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 282)

        Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into The Mystery And Art Of Living [Book]

          Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into The Mystery And Art Of Living [Book]
          By: Krista Tippett

          Book Overview: In Becoming Wise, Krista Tippett has created a master class in living for a fractured world. Fracture, she says, is not the whole story of our time. The enduring question of what it means to be human has become inextricable from the challenge of who we are to one another. She insists on the possibility of personal depth and common life for this century, nurtured by science and “spiritual technologies,” with civility and love as muscular public practice. And, accompanied by a cross-disciplinary dream team of a teaching faculty, she shows us how.

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            “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

            Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey

              “Sometimes, we forget that we ever wanted anything different from what we have. The repetitiveness of our toxic memory can lure us into years of accepting more of the same and wasting away in a mediocre existence that fails to meet even our own expectations.”

              Debbie Ford, The Shadow Effect (Page 84)

                “Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”

                Rainer Maria Rilke, via Sunbeams (Page 92)

                  “We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”

                  Katherine May, Wintering

                    “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our inner most being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

                    Joseph Campbell, The Power Of Myth, via Sunbeams (Page 82)

                      “Every day matters.  The awareness of our mortality can help us pursue a goal.  We all have a limited amount of time on earth.  Those who live in active awareness of this reality are more likely to identify goals and make progress toward them.  Or to put it another way: Everyone dies, but not everyone truly lives.”

                      Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit (Page 268)

                        “It has become ever more clear to me that if I had spent my life avoiding any and all potential risks, I would have missed doing most of the things that have comprised the best years of my life.”

                        Phoebe Snetsinger, via The Happiness of Pursuit (Page 262)