Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot
cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own
self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the
right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you
have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and
over again.
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're
going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long
tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into
a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting
shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the
sorrows and everything changes.
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets
in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come
when life seems most challenging.
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, it's off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married....The Puritans called marriage "the little church within the Church." In marriage, every day you love, and every day you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament – love and forgiveness.... Like the yin/yang symbol....Here I am, and here she is, and here we are. Now when I have to make a sacrifice, I'm not sacrificing to her, I'm sacrificing to the relationship. Resentment against the other one is wrongly placed. Life in in the relationship, that's where your life now is. That's what a marriage is – whereas, in a love affair, you have two lives in a more or less successful relationship to each other for a certain length of time, as long as it seems agreeable.
