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Make Your Soul Book
“A true vocation requires shedding anything that would impede or obscure the call. A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow. As the old proverb says, “Before you begin the journey, you own the journey. Once you have begun, the journey owns you.” After all, what good is a dream that doesn’t test the mettle of the dreamer? What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.”
- Michael Meade
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“I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can — in some beautifully bound book…When these things are in some precious book you can go to the book & turn over the pages & for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for that book is your soul.”— C. G. Jung
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“We have to have permission to dream, to hope. To place both our successes and catastrophic failures in perspective. We have to dream our futures as clearly as, when children, we saw ourselves as…
