Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
- Peace Pilgrim
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Further reading: Life's Daring Adventure
Cheer for Endings
Choose to Soar
Be Boldly Decisive
Dear Johnathan,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your thoughtful and meaningful quotes each day. They matter to me and almost always relate to where I am on my path. Tonight's thoughts made me wonder how I can overcome the lives of those I've watched fade in irreconcilable angst and suffering. All of the people from my life who have passed on from old age, died horribly unfulfilled, desperate, in terror. I've walked the spiritual path now for many years, but only upon reading the quote, at this moment, do I realize that I sit in an unnamed fear, one where I will be like my alcoholic father, step father, Uncles and my victimized mother. Part of my dread I only now realize, is that programming. Am I so programmed that I am doomed to fall into the abysmal pattern? Do you have any suggestions on how to separate myself from this pattern? I know its been my family's legacy...and I have only just now allowed it into my conscious awareness.
Warm regards,
Leslie