John Geddes

...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...

the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do

...you don't need a calling to minister love...

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...

...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began...

...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...

...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...