Awakening the Soul

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The sign of the awakening of the soul is that the awakened person throws a light, the light of his soul, upon every person and every object and sees that object, that condition in this light.  It is his own soul, which becomes a torch in his hand. It is his own light that illuminates his path.  It is just like throwing a searchlight upon dark corners, which one did not see before, and the corners become clear and illuminated again.  It is like throwing light upon problems that one did not understand at first.  It is like seeing with x-rays persons who were riddles before.    Hazrat Inayat Khan

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men, I do not know.  I cannot prove.  But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms by confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.  Henry Norris Russell

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.  Lao Tzu

I’m hungry for knowledge.  The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.  That’s what this world is about.  You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed.  Martin Luther King glowed.  Muhammad Ali glows.  I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.  Jay-Z

The source and center of all creative power is the power of making images, or the power of imagination.  Robert Collier

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination.  These give us the ultimate human freedom: the power to choose, to respond, to change.  Stephen Covey

Understand Life

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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.  Pablo Picasso

Whoever must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values. Thus the highest evil belongs to the highest goodness: but this is creative.  Nietzsche

We will likely be better able to integrate the destroyer aspect of our identity if we can see ourselves as “creative destroyers,” those who destroy in the service of creation, which in the end, may be the secret key to unlocking and releasing the floodgates of our creative potential for growth and constructive transformation.  Scott Kiser

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.  Marion Woodman

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.  Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.  Marie Curie

A fire-like event may be just what you need in your life to press the great reset-button and allow for a new start.  Regardless if the fire was set by external circumstances or of your own doing, it is important to see how that destruction may spawn a complete rebirth of life, opportunities, and possibilities that otherwise may have not existed before. In the wake of destruction, welcome the forthcoming creation to follow and rise above whatever happens.   Andy Wooten