I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me,. . . I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee. . . I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone. . . Not on a committee. Not on a team.
I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.
Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.