There Are Many Rafts

David Price
5 min readSep 5, 2024
Rob Gondalves

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him first.

~ Charles Spurgeon

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My teachings are a raft, meant to help you cross over the river. Once you reach the other shore, set the raft down and go on with your life.

~ Buddha

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Jung taught me that you must always watch what your body does when you don’t understand an analysand. Your body often tells you what’s the matter.

~ Marie-Louise von Franz

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My daughter used to wake my toddler granddaughter each morning and ask her about her dreams. She had a magical way about her, and wanted to connect with the magic of her daughter Mika. The thought of these two beautiful creatures lying in bed together sharing their dreams made my heart and the hearts of all my ancestors thump.

~ Laura Lentz

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Spirituality is the tuning of the heart. One can obtain it neither by study nor by piety.

~ Hazrat Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan

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What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in,

whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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