The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life. — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Unless a person learns of the sacred intentions in their own life it will be difficult for them to understand the sacred… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing in life may be to learn to truly trust that there is something noble and generative in ourselves. This… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“To awaken to the living dream within one’s life and remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Each soul lives on the verge of remembering the forgotten agreement and original dream that it carries; yet each moment can be… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences pain and most suffer from patterns that continue to make life miserable unless something or someone intervenes. The pain we… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people,… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives,… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Unless a person learns of the sacred intentions in their own life it will be difficult for them to understand the sacred presence in… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart. Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can become lost.… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“In these dark and uncertain times, there can be great value in imagining a bit of star in each human soul. Not just that… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
