Here are quotes from other sources that I have found nurturing for my journey. (Note, the downloads are in PDF format)
The Mystical Style (Christian Schwarz)
This quote from The 3 Colors of Your Spirituality, an excellent book of understanding Spiritual Styles (within Christianity), explains the Mystical Style in a way I found helpful… (See my blog on 4/24/2010 My Cup Overflows)
Nature of Spiritual Work (Sandra Maitri)
Excerpt from the Epilogue to The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram by Sandra Maitri©
Pat and I read this book together and got a lot out of it. We both felt the truth and wisdom of Maitri’s closing words about the nature of spiritual work. While Maitri applies these words to the enneagram, Pat and I realized that her words apply to all effective spiritual paths, including Pat’s AIP program and my Pathwork. Substitute the name of your spiritual path for the word enneagram in the attachment, and I think you will see Maitri’s wisdom.
Listening
To “listen” another’s soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another.
Douglas Steer — Gleanings: A Random Harvest
Patience
Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?
Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
Your Calling
The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
Loving the Questions – Rilke
Quote from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (1903), a long time favorite quote of mine.
Nature of Transformation and Growth Work (A.H. Almaas)
I find this quote from the Introduction to Facets of Unity — The Enneagram of Holy Ideas by A.H. Almaas to be very well said. I find that Pathwork says the same thing in many ways and in many lectures, but I was drawn to this particular set of paragraphs by Almaas as a great summary of what Transformation and Growth are all about.