T. Thorn Coyle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.
-- T. Thorn Coyle

#Heart #Dark #Light
Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.
-- T. Thorn Coyle

#Connections #Tradition #Transcendence
May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
-- T. Thorn Coyle

#Light #Shining #Darkness
Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core.
-- T. Thorn Coyle

#Stars #Following
We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.
-- T. Thorn Coyle

#Animal #Forget #Moments
Cast yourself. You are the spell.
-- T. Thorn Coyle

#Casts
True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.
-- T. Thorn Coyle

#Self #Knowing #Space

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

T. Thorn Coyle famous quotes

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