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The Importance of Beauty
‘While doing a workshop on the mystical journey according to Meister Eckhart — a woman told me the following story ‘I told my Psychiatrist this week that I thought I might be a mystic. Her response was : ‘You probably have epilepsy. Take the chemical tests over the weekend, and we will discuss it next week’.
Mathew Fox
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“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“So perhaps change is less about fixing a broken world and more about uncovering hidden wholeness in all events, all organizations and all people and remembering our personal power to make a difference. This old story has greatly changed the way that I am a physician and also a teacher. It has given me new eyes. Everyone and everything has in it a seed of a greater wholeness, a dream of possibility. Perhaps what I once saw as ‘broken’ or ‘lacking’ might just as easily be seen as the growing edge of things … a place to be valued and nurtured in our patients, our students and in ourselves.”
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
