Rafe Martin famous quotes

we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.
-- Rafe Martin

#Change #Heart #Errors

Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.
-- Rafe Martin

#Teacher #Work #Commitment

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.
-- Rafe Martin

#Nuts #People #Stories

One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.
-- Rafe Martin

#Letting Go #Creating #Space

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

In pain is a new time born.

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

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.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.