At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation. - Michael J. Meade

Much of the fear of death comes from an intuition that we will be revealed as having avoided encounters with the deep self within us.

The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.

In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of history are loosely stitched upon the endless loom of eternity. Secretly, we are each tied to the divine. Human awareness was thought to be the extra element in creation, able at times to help tip the scales toward renewal.