The Path of Living Deeply 🐌

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”

If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again — if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man — then you are ready for a walk.

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No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the

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“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has

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“Virtues are forged when no one else is looking and imparted when a hand is reaching up for us to grab it. In these defining moments, there is not much to be said. Only silent vistas of clarity where ancient human emotions are reciprocated.”

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."-John Irving

So to go back to the image of our inner and outer horizons, the ability to put the inner horizon inside you in conversation with the far horizon of your imagination out in the physical world makes a really powerful conversation. But the really fierce conversation is when you put what’s below that horizon inside you, which is the unknown just about

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