Some
people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week
at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how
their lives are slipping away until it's too late.
[The void] It's that place in our lives where
what we've been hanging onto . . . clinging to for dear life . . . is stripped
away. It's that place in us where we let go of what we know, what we think we know,
and what we want and surrender to the unknown. It is the place of saying
and meaning, 'I don't know.' It means standing there with our hands
empty for a while, sometimes watching everything we wanted disappear; our
self-image, our definition of who we thought we should be, the clones we've
created of ourselves, the people we thought we had to have, the things we
thought were so important to collect and surround ourselves with, the job we
were certain was ours, the place we thought we'd live in all our lives.
Surrender
control to the supreme wisdom and authority of God and to the Divine in your
soul. Step into the void with courage.
Learn
to say, "I don't know"
That's
not blind faith. It's pure faith that will allow your spirit
to lead you wherever your soul wants and needs to go.
Going
home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants
to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not
being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel
at home.
Quit hanging on to the
handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every
day.
Your
body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply
reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages
from your heart—messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you
must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world.
. . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another
way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you
stop to listen, you’ll realize that your heart has been telling you so all
along.
A bird does not sing because it
has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
There is the risk you cannot
afford to take and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is
as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert
Einstein
There
are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. No one
lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for
inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in
the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the
plowing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have
glimpsed from the peaks.
The
individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the
tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely
often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the
privilege of owning yourself.
Be bold
and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen
short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.
It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
Don't
be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. It is our
choices that show what we really are, far more than our abilities. It’s what
you learn after you know it all that counts.
Our
souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to
live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit
different for our having passed through it.
What
frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. . . . Does
our being alive matter?
You only live once! But if you do it right, once
is enough!
