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The Warrior and the priestess -- two powerful female archetypes. One tiredand wounded, one radiant and healed The feminine is comfortable with the unknown. From this mystery springs creativity and intuition |
| He who harbors love of truth in his heart will live and not suffer, for he has drunk the water of immortality. So struggle courageously and wisely. Then you can be a soldier of Truth.' |
| Unless one treads the way through the forest with all its dangers and threats, one cannot learn the way to wisdom and come to light. In most myths, fairytales and stories, the transition and transformation occurs in the forest. |
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| Life offers us the opportunity to become a Spiritual Warrior. A warrior is one who bravely goes into those dark areas within themselves to ferret out the Truth of their being. |
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The path is narrow You will walk alone: through the dark caves, up those steep climbs and through the dense thickforest. You will meet your dark side. The faces of fear, deceit, and sadness all await your arrival. Should we decide to embark on this journey, we can never turn back.... Our lives are changed forever |
| The Spiritual Warrior stays the course, wounded at times, exhausted and out of energy. The Spiritual Warrior stays the course. Weakened, but never broken. |
| One day, the battle, loneliness and desperate fight sare over. The sun breaks through the clouds; the birds begin tosing their sweet melodies. There is a change in the energy. A deep change within the self The battle of the dark night of the soul is won. New energy and joy now fill the Warrior. A new awareness of God beams as they go forth to show others the way and be a living example of the Truth of their being. |
| Religion calls the soul to the highest adventure it can undertake, a projected journey across the jungles, peaks, and deserts of the human spirit. The call is to confront reality, to master the self. Those who dare to hear and follow that secret call soon learn the dangers and difficulties of its lonely journey.." authentic religion is the clearest opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human life." |
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| the "journey back to God," is an unfolding of the heart's secret The "death" of the ego is central to the mystical path, as expressed in the saying of the Prophet, "to die before you die. The mystic knows that "the mind is the slayer of the real" While the mind can only understand through separation, the separation of subject and object, the heart knows through oneness. The first paradox of the path is that "the end is present in the beginning."and so begins the circular journey of self-revelation. |
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| I have found a Sea of Love an inexhaustible flood; I have opened a treasure of spiritual knowledge, it diffuses the lustre of a million suns arisen in Thy worshipper's souls. Unexpectedly without an effort I have heard the Eternal Secret, I have learned to know God. -- Saint Tukaram |
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