"The awakening can only occur through the coming of the Beloved, for the awakening of the soul through the lure of the Beloved is essential to myth, archetype, and sacred psychology. The myth does more than call us to wake up. Through the story, it offers us a pathway and process for doing so which engages us fully enough to insure that we wake up with a deepened capacity for loving and a greater connection to our own courage, strength, and wisdom so that we may become conscious co-creators of our world."
-Jean Houston

"The course of TRUE LOVE never did run smooth."-William Shakespeare

It is not me you fear
It is TRUTH you fear

“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will,” says Hamlet

Thom Hartmann's "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight"

"In 'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,' Columbia University psychology professor Julian Jaynes puts forth the concept that in prehistoric times (more than 7,000 to 10,000 years ago) people actually heard the voices of the gods. When they looked out into the natural world, they saw fairies, sprites, spirits and other entities. This was because, Jaynes posits, the two hemispheres of the brain were more fully connected, so that the auditory regions of the left hemisphere were directly connected to the hallucinatory regions of the right hemisphere (Wernicke's and Broca's areas) that, in modern people, are normally active only during dreaming or in schizophrenics. Because of this direct connection, Jaynes suggests what we now call hallucinations probably were a common part of the everyday."

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

“Original Experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you’ve got to work out life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can’t. You don’t have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.”

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”

"And this above all unto thine own self be true and it shall follow as the day the night-thou can'st not then be false to any man."
~William Shakespeare

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find
That it excels all other bliss
Which God or nature hath assign'd.
Though much I want that most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

No princely port, nor wealthy store,
No force to win a victory,
No wily wit to salve a sore,
No shape to win a loving eye;
To none of these I yield as thrall,--
For why? my mind despise them all.

I see that plenty surfeit oft,
And hasty climbers soonest fall;
I see that such as are aloft
Mishap doth threaten most of all.
These get with toil and keep with fear;
Such cares my mind can never bear.

I press to bear no haughty sway,
I wish no more than may suffice,
I do no more than well I may,
Look, what I want my mind supplies.
Lo ! thus I triumph like a king,
My mind content with anything.

I laugh not at another's loss,
Nor grudge not at another's gain;
No worldly waves my mind can toss;
I brook that is another's bane.
I fear no foe, nor fawn on friend,
I loathe not life, nor dread mine end.

My wealth is health and perfect ease,
And conscience clear my chief defence;
I never seek by bribes to please,
Nor by desert to give offence.
Thus do I live, thus will I die,--
Would all did so as well as I!

Sir Edward Dyer

for when you turn the blade gainst
thy temple
you destroy my sacred altar
that carries the fire breathing god
of my heart
in your cage.