Michael Meade famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.
-- Michael Meade

#Moving #Self #Imagination
There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.
-- Michael Meade

#Party #Mean #Parent
Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.
-- Michael Meade

#Soul #World #Want
When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
-- Michael Meade

#War #People #Culture
The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.
-- Michael Meade

#Real #Life Changing #Block
In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.
-- Michael Meade

#Heart #Boys #Skills
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.
-- Michael Meade

#Yoga #Fate #Unique
The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.
-- Michael Meade

#Imagination #Soul #Desire
During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.
-- Michael Meade

#Soul #Trying #Blossoming
A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person...
-- Michael Meade

#Quality #Genius #Calling
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.
-- Michael Meade

#Teacher #Genius #Students
Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.
-- Michael Meade

#Tragedy #Quality #World
Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.
-- Michael Meade

#Thinking #Soul #Substance
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit in the student and because it required an awakened spirit in the teachers. Spirit to spirit, genius to genius, soul to soul go the true lessons that help young people become themselves. Ultimately, each person holds the key to the story trying to be lived from within, but first someone else must help unlock the mystery of oneâ€™s life.
-- Michael Meade

#Teacher #Keys #People
A false sense of security is the only kind there is.
-- Michael Meade

#Kind #Security
While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?
-- Michael Meade

#Self #Chance #True Self

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