“ Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative ind… Michael Meade
“ If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul. Michael Meade
“ Inside each one of us there is a mostly hidden, mostly golden, mostly eternal image or aspect of being, similar to the gold that is buried in the earth. We are the earthlings, the children of the eart… Michael Meade
“ The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the g… Michael Meade
“ Each life involves an essential errand; not simply the task of survival, but a life-mission embedded in the soul from the beginning. Michael Meade
“ Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives. Michael Meade
“ When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing. Michael Meade
“ 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. Michael Meade
“ Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul. Michael Meade
“ The second adventure involves the divine spark hidden in each soul and the dark times require that the inner light of soul be found again. Perhaps there is no greater time to awaken to the adventure t… Michael Meade
“ Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a “mythic condition” that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touched… Michael Meade
“ When we place our immediate conflicts in the territory of an archetypal story we can better see the nature of our problems and find solutions that bring creative imagination to bear in the realm of ha… Michael Meade
“ 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 e… Michael Meade
“ In order to understand the conditions we are in, we must place ourselves not in the mainstream of life but in the timeless stream of myth. As the fabric of life loosens, the veil between this world of… Michael Meade
“ Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on. Michael Meade
“ Myth and nature are the two great garments of the world, with nature being the living green garment that covers the planet and myth being the multidimensional, many-colored fabric that continually wea… Michael Meade