Ironically, according to ancient legend, the word Wilderness didn’t conjure up a place of punishment, but rather a place of learning, spiritual growth, understanding, healing and accomplishment. It referred to a wellspring of Divine energy in the guise of despair, hardship and pain; your experience in the wilderness was designed to prepare or propel you toward your destiny. Or pry you loose from whatever was keeping you from it. Sarah Ban Breathnach
Providence
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. –Anne-Sophie Swethine
Our Way Is Not Soft Grass
Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Dr. Ruth Westheimer
We Cannot Go Back. We Can Only Go Forward
We cannot go back. We can only go forward. To go back to Eden would be like trying to return to our mother’s womb, to infancy. Since we cannot go back, we must grow up. We can only go forward through the desert of life, making our way painfully over parched and barren ground into increasingly deeper levels of consciousness. Scott Peck
Solutions to Problems May Be Found in the Circumstances
There is no problem which does not have an appropriate solution. . . the solution often may be found in the circumstances creating the problem. – Napoleon Hill
Creating Our World
We are all creating our world all the time; the important task is to do so consciously. Pat Allen
Live as Much From the Heart as From the Head
We know we are on the way toward soul when we feel attachment to the world and the people around us and when we live as much from the heart as from the head. – Thomas Moore
Walk, Work and Speak
We will walk on our own feet; We will work with our own hands; We will speak our own minds. – Emerson
Becoming More Conscious
The more conscious we become, the more we see the games that other people play and their sins and manipulations, but we’re also more conscious of their burdens and sorrows. –Scott Peck
Be Willing to Share Pain
More often than not, the most healing thing we can do with someone who is in pain, rather than trying to get rid of that pain, is to sit there and be willing to share it. –Scott Peck