Your Hair on Fire?
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“Sri Ramakrishna said, "Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond."”
~ Joseph Campbell 20th Century Philosopher & Mythology Expert
That’s hot. (No pun intended.)
We’re way too timid in life.
And that includes with our spiritual development.
Is your hair on fire?
Or are you not wanting to be “too intense”?
(Who in the heck came up with that, anyway? Oh, yah! Someone who’s not living very fully…)
* hands match box over *
Time to light our hair on fire, folks!
Let’s have some fun. And thinkArete.
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Responsibility of any kind can seem intimidating and for this reason man may often be afraid of truly deep relationships with other human beings. A relationship suggests to him the most extreme of responsibilities. It implies a burden, a restriction of freedom, seldom the converse. A student in love class, for instance, commented, “I’ve always been afraid of deep relationship because of the responsibility it seemed to impose. I was afraid of the demands it would make of me and I worried I wouldn’t be able to meet those demands. I was amazed to find that when I did get the courage to form a relationship, I actually became stronger. I acquired two minds instead of one, four hands, four arms, four legs, and another’s world. In joining forces with someone, I got twice the strength to grow, with twice as many alternatives. Now it’s easier for me to love others. I am stronger and I am less afraid.” He had discovered an important insight.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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