The sacred spiral

“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.”

-Hermann Hesse

“The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination

where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not.

It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life,

and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening.

The finding of God is a coming to one’s self.”

-Aldous Huxley

“The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep.”

-Eckhart Tolle

“In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.”

-David Richo Quotes, How to Be an Adult: A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual Integration

“Do not seek after what you yearn for; seek the source of the yearning itself.”

-Adyashanti

“The light is all around, but to find it, we need to look inside our hearts. We can go through life and search in all the wrong places. But one day we’ll look within an we’ll find the entire universe.”

-Dorit Braeur

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

-Rumi