The Beloved of the Soul
“We remember, if only as a dream, Sun Self, Sea Self, Unitive Being, the Beloved of the soul. And we cry to dream again….it is time for the rebirth of the spirit. However unlikely it may seem, we are to be the midwives of God.”
–Jean Houston (American Scholar, Researcher and Author on Human Potentialities, 1937-)
“The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology” (Jean Houston)
Inspired by Stars
“If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet and Essayist, 1803-1882)
Penetrating Into the Essence
“To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of others, by expressing in the world of forms – truth, love, purity and beauty – this is the sole game that has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.”
–Meher Baba (Indian Spiritual Teacher who, from July 1925 maintained Silence, 1894-1969)
An Inspiration
“We find Jesus of Nazareth, in the first place, the true son of the Orient, intensely practical. He has no faith in this evanescent world and all its belongings. No need of text-torturing, as is the fashion in the west in modern times, no need of stretching out texts until they will not stretch any more.”
–Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic and Spiritual Teacher, 1863-1902)
How We All Connect
“All images and experiences of my soul are images and experiences of your soul. This field of psychic reality which is immanent to each transcends the individual differences between us, giving us the common language based on our common patterns of experience. Through our unconscious we all connect.”
–James Hillman (American Psychologist, 1926-2011)
“Insearch: Psychology and Religion (Jungian Classics Series)” (James Hillman)
Life Is About Choices
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt (American Diplomat, First Lady and Humanitarian, 1884-1962)
Ancient Stories That Guide Our Lives
“Whereas we think in periods of years, the unconscious thinks and lives in terms of millennia. So when something happens that seems to us an unexampled novelty, it is generally a very old story indeed. We still forget, like children, what happened yesterday. We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and “modern.” This is unmistakable proof of the youthfulness of human consciousness, which has not yet grown aware of its historical antecedents.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
The Sacred Soul
“For God, every soul is sacred and blessed and always God’s child; the soul may forget its home and inheritance and identity, but God never forgets and acts in thousands of secret and overt ways to remind the soul of its real nature.”
–Andrew Harvey (Indian-born English Philosopher, 1952-)
Symbols, Images and Archetypes
“Symbols, images, and archetypes…are the key regulators and main ‘switches’ of human consciousness and of one’s inner life. It is through them that all alterations, focusing, and expansion of human consciousness take place, for they are the regulators, accumulators, and transformers of human consciousness. They enable a person to connect himself (and his field of consciousness) temporarily and to identify with something greater and larger than he is and, thus, slowly to transcend himself and actualize his latent energies, faculties, and potentialities.”
–Peter Roche de Coppens (American Writer and Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Psychotherapy at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania)
“The Divine Light and Fire: Experiencing Esoteric Christianity” (Peter Roche De Coppens)
Wisdom is Within
“All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that wisdom is within ourselves … then we may know the sun is rising, that the morning is breaking for us.”
–Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic and Spiritual Teacher, 1863-1902)
