CLEAR ALL
We are what we believe we are!
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.