My life belongs to the community

"This is the true joy of life, the being used up by a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."

-George Bernard Shaw

"To keep my health, to do my work, to love, to live.
To see to it that I gain and grow and give.
Never to look behind me for an hour.
Never to wait in weakness, nor brag in power.
Always working, searching for more truth, more light.
Always writing, teaching, what I found good and right!
Robbed, starved, beaten, fallen wide astray.
Back with the full-truth I've learned. Back to the way!"

-Dr Bronner's Magic Soap

Inspire

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

-RW Emerson

Rewards for facing the fear of being alone

"1. A deeper consciousness of oneself.
2. A deeper attunement to nature.
3. A deeper relationship with the transcendent (the numinous, the divine, the spiritual).
4. Increased creativity.
5. An increased sense of freedom."

-Sara Maitland

Love's greatest killer

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds onto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

-Anais Nin

No spiritual epiphany

It just is, and it's great.

A consumer's awakened heart

“One sign of the moral confusion in our market-driven society is that people have the tendency to elevate consumer and lifestyle choices into matters of high moral drama, leading to overblown talk of ‘moral imperatives.’ Tortuous analysis of one’s thoughts and actions produces a facsimile of moral seriousness that is pleasing to the ego, but it is no substitute for the wisdom and compassion that arise from the awakened heart.”

-Randall Ryotan Eiger; The Slow Burn