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The Genius Behind The Wound
We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is not to know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.
— Michael Meade
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Jesus had said, “If you want to follow me,
leave your father and mother.
Give away your possessions, and follow me.” But the secret
is that you don’t give up anything.
It falls away from you.
In other words, the values change.
Let me give you a very simple
and very banal example.
A mother comes into the room
and sees her little child playing with matches. She’s horrified. If she takes the box of matches away, the child will cry.
So she quickly grasps a lovely red bowl.
“Look, darling, look.”
The child drops the matches
and grasps the bowl.
That’s what the Teacher does.
— Irina Tweedie
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…The primary condition to enter the imaginary is love full of interest; the imaginary…
