The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.
James HollisDoubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.
James HollisTo experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.
James HollisWhat I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.
James Hollis