We have forgotten that life holds a unique story for us all. A thread made up of faint signs that lead to the manifestation of something unique. What the native people call “your medicine way.” Something that only you can give to the world. (Location 123)
He has achieved one of the hardest things to achieve in our time: a freedom from judgment about how and who he should be. (Location 202)
The father is a track: a trail we choose to follow or a path we walk away from. (Location 395)
don’t try to be someone, rather find the thing that is so engaging that it makes you forget yourself. (Location 465)
I had learned how to learn. In a way the ancient people understood, the mentor unlocked the pressure between father and son. (Location 472)
The track of the father is to find him within you. To find what he gave you and what he didn’t give you. You must use both sides. The medicine of transformation is innately built into this relationship. (Location 474)
I am struck by how disconnected we are from the body. Obsessed with thinking, modern culture has forgotten the innate knowledge of the body. How its signals are a guide, how it knows what it needs to be healthy. (Location 488)
I don’t know where we are going but I know exactly how to get there (Location 506)
Joseph Campbell said, “If you can see your whole life’s path laid out then it’s not your life’s path.” (Location 509)
It’s common to think that if we can get the external metrics right everything will be okay. But that does not always leave us the room to learn about ourselves. (Location 535)
a huge part of what you might think of as “this is how I am” or “this is what you do” is not you at all but patterns of behavior and thinking you have adopted from the cultural story. (Location 570)
The aboriginals used to say of modern life, “It’s three days deep.” In three days in wilderness, you learn what’s important and your mind changes. Your way of being shifts. (Location 573)
The deepest lessons must be lived. (Location 884)
I hear Joseph Campbell: “People are not looking for the meaning of life, they are looking for the feeling of being alive.” (Location 1066)
Suddenly, I feel an old friend who has walked with me for years arise. Each one of us has these friends; mine is called self-doubt. I have learned rather than to resist him, to invite him in, welcoming him as a teacher of humility. (Location 1098)
I hear the poet Rumi: “What you seek is seeking you.” (Location 1146)