Category: Recognise

Practice 21 – The First Creative Power – Noble Desire

The wholesome desire for freedom

The path is not about forcing yourself into rigid discipline, but about cultivating a heartfelt interest in waking up to life. When you care about your journey, the effort becomes a joy.

Stephen Batchelor

The movement of spiritual awakening is away from grasping and toward openness – toward intention rather than craving.

Tara Brach

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22 – The Second Creative Power – Courageous Energy

The steady power propelling our raft

Better than a hundred years lived in idleness and in weakness is one day lived with courage and powerful striving.

Gotama (the Buddha)

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can’t practise any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

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23 – The Third Creative Power – The Heart’s Compass

If my Heart could do my thinking,
and my Head began to feel,
Would I look upon a world anew?
And know what’s truly real.

Van Morrison

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

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24 – The Fourth Creative Power – Fearless Investigation as a Creative Power

The intelligent navigation system of our raft

The interactive power of watchful, wise inquiry

Do not go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture… But when you know for yourselves that, ‘These things are skillful… these things, when undertaken and observed, lead to welfare and happiness’ –  then you should enter and remain in them.

Gotoma (the Buddha)

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Pema Chödrön

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