Mind Scraps: Words that Speak to my Heart

Some more quotes I’ve pulled from Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior that truly hit home with me:

“All our journeys are sacred, and all our lives an adventure.” ~Dan Millman

“Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum; only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.” ~Socrates

“Follow your nose; trust your instincts.” ~Socrates

“The important thing is this:
To be ready at any moment
To sacrifice what you are
For what you could become.”
~Charles Dubois

“A conventional world that repelled me for reasons I could not explain.” ~Dan Millman

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” John A. Sheed

“Days passed in dreamlike impressions of bright colors and strange scents as incense and cow dung blended in the oppressive heat.”

“Potent with spiritual force.”

“This ‘pay-attention-there’s-something-your-missing’ feeling became intolerable, like a fire in my belly. I felt like screaming, ‘what am I supposed to do?’”

“To really help people, you first need to understand them – but first understand yourself, prepare yourself; develop the clarity, the courage and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage in the right place at the right time. Then your actions will have power.”

“Baby tell me what God fells like. I’m starting to forget.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~Marcel Proust

“You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.” ~Sri Nisargadtta Maharay

“The organs weep the tears the eyes refuse to shed.”

“Unexpressed emotion is stored in the muscles of the body.”

“A great teacher never strives to explain her vision; she simply invites you to stand beside her and see for yourself.” ~The Rev. R. Inman

“Plans are useful, but don’t get too attached to them; life has too many surprises. Preparation, on the other hand, has value, even if the future you planned never comes.”

On photography: “Every day when he got up, he saw a world of light and shadow, shapes and textures – a world of beauty and harmony and balance.”

“All paths, all activities – professional, sports, arts, crafts – serve as a means of internal development, merely a boat to get across the river. Once you get across you no longer need a boat.”

“The journey itself creates the warrior.”

“Sachi hopped, skipped and danced toward me.”

“Her smile made my day.”

“For now I can only encourage you to trust the process of your life, and remember the law of faith… Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.”

“In the darkest, most chaotic times – when things fall apart – such times often mark quickening, as your mind readies itself to make a leap. When you feel like your going nowhere, stagnating, even slipping backward, your soul is only backing up to get a running start.”

“You have to go beyond belief to direct experience.”

“It is simple, just not easy.”

“Discomfort is one way our Basic Self gets our attention. It only sends harsh messages when the gentler ones – your intuitions and dreams – have been ignored.”

“How old would you be if you didn’t know your age. That’s all that matters.”

And one of my own:

“I don’t profess to be anything other than a lost soul truly in love and captivated with wandering this enchanting and bewitching world.” ~Me

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