Soulmate

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.
~Kenny Loggins

Heart

"From the beginning to the very end
pointing to our own hearts to discover
What is true isn't just a matter of honesty
but also compassion and respect
for what we see."  Pema Chodron

Discovery

"Something we were withholding made us weak until we found it was ourselves."  Robert Frost

Spiritual Adventure

"I had been on an adventure, searching for a genuine and fearless kind of spirituality.   I didn't want to become anything other than my most vibrant, peaceful and grateful self.   I wanted to find a sacred path through the fullness of life in the real world - a daily discipline that reached into the heavens even as it dug deeply into my psyche, helping me to overcome resistance, falseness and mistrust."  Elizabeth Lesser

Discovery

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.   Andre' Gide

Discovering our Gifts

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."  Shakti Gawain

Discovery

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."  Albert Szint-Gycrgyi

Kindness to Self

‎"Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe." Pema Chodron

Discovery

"The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new vistas but in having new eyes."  Proust

Self-Examination

"There is great joy in discovering our ignorance, and great freedom  in realizing how defended from the truth we have been - how what we think is so, often is not so at all."  Elizabeth Lesser

Growth

"When you open your heart to discovery you will be called to step outside the comfort barriers within which you have fortified your life.   You will be called to risk old views and thoughts and to step off the circle of routine and image.   This will often bring turbulence.   The pendulum will fix at times on one extreme, and you will be out of balance.   But your soul loves the danger of growth.   In its own wise trust, your soul will always return you to a place of real and vital equilibrium."     John O' Donahue

Discovery

"When you limit your life to one frame of thinking you close out the mystery.   When you fence in the desires of your heart within fixed walls of belief, morality and convention, you dishonor the call of discovery.   You create gray fields of 'quiet desperation'.   Discovery is the nature of the soul.   There is some wildness of divinity in us, calling us to live everything."   John O' Donahue