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ON THE COMMON GROUND
PATHWAYS BOOKLET
I.
THE CALL
| In every age, men have set out on pilgrimages, on spiritual
journeys, on personal quests. Driven by pain, drawn by longing,
lifted by hope, singly and in groups they come in search of
relief, enlightenment, peace, power, joy or they know not
what...This should not surprise us. Crises marked by anxiety,
doubt, and despair. . . occur. . . when a man is sufficiently
unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth. . .
So. . .the. . .longing for growth is the central force of
his pilgrimage. |
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—Sheldon B. Kopp
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THE SEVEN
PATHWAYS
I.
The Call
II.
Departure/Entry
III.
The One Guide
IV. Trial
V.
Passage
VI.
Return
VII. Home
THE PATHWAYS
BOOKLET
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I.
Am I open to going inside myself to understand myself and the events
of my life?
What do I have to learn today?
| ...I wept. I said to my soul, "What have you done with the
garden entrusted to you" |
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—Antonio Machado
tr. R. Bly
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| ...nothing can be sole or whole that has not first been rent!
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—William Butler Yeats
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| For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun... |
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—William James
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| The way out of the labyrinth is to keep your hand on the cold,
damp, shuddering wall of your humiliation. |
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—Nor Hall
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II.
In what ways does my story make me want to understand myself?
Do I achieve what I want for myself?
What hopes, difficulties, or needs
bring me to where I am?
It so happens I am sick of my feet and my nails and my hair
and my shadow.
It so happens I am sick of being a man.
Still it would be
marvelous
to terrify a law
clerk with a cut lily,
or...go through the
streets with a green knife
letting out yells
until I died of the cold. |
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—Pablo Neruda
tr. R. Bly
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The...psyche knows both its limits and its potential. If
the former are...exceeded, or the latter not realized, a breakdown
occurs.
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—Daryl Sharp
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| When we are so wounded...nothing else will avail, when we
find we can do nothing...that will restore ...meaning to our
lives, then we reluctantly go to our souls. |
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—Robert Johnson
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I never suspected...I would have to learn how to live-- that
there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing ...I had
to master before I could awaken to...life.
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—Dan Millman
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III.
Do I believe I can ask for, and receive,
support in finding my way?
Where can I get the help I need?
What do I need help for?
| Communication leads to community--that is, to understanding,
intimacy and mutual valuing. |
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Behind an able man there are always other able men. |
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—Chinese Proverb
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...psychoanalysis has no monopoly on the power to heal. ...Art
and poetry have always been altering our ways of sensing and
feeling--that is to say, altering the human body.
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—Norman O. Brown
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Accepting an initiatory task is more important than succeeding
or failing at it...initiation truly means to expand sideways
into the glory of oaks, mountains, glaciers, horses, lions,
grasses, waterfalls, deer. We need wilderness and extravagance.
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—Robert Bly
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