The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

“Take a concrete issue, such as intemperance; analyze the problem, formulate a specific demand … then urge women to take practical, confrontational and effective action that logically followed

“We can do no great things,” wrote the nineteenth-century French saint, Teresa, “only small things with great love.”

“A man tracks himself through life,” he wrote. “One should be always on the trail of one’s own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.”

took her place with them at the side of the hall, where it was understood that they (the women) were to remain silent—observing, and “learning from” the speeches of the men who dominated the organization.

It is, therefore, the sacred duty of every individual human soul to be utterly and completely itself—to be that jewel at that time and in that place, and to be that jewel utterly. It is in this way—merely by being itself—that one jewel holds together its own particular corner of Space and Time. The action of each individual soul holds together the

View in the Farnese Gardens

As Frost brought forth more and more of what was within him, he felt increasingly split. Was he a farmer? A teacher? A poet? He felt a crossroads coming.

She was a woman who had retained the simplicity of earlier life even as she had surpassed its limitations.” Susan B. Anthony was what she championed. She had become, through her own practice, the New True Woman.

jivan mukta—the soul awake in this lifetime.