Authentic Threads

I started a project of reading my MANY old journals. I’ve read 1 journal so far. Hmmm…

Here are some quotes I wrote in my journal in 2001:

Cultivate peace at home. Home is that magic circle in which the weary spirit finds rest. It has an influence that binds us with a spell that neither time nor change can break. Peace at home breeds a successful and happy life.

- Tracey McBride in Frugal Luxuries

The next quote is a quote that I dreamed. I think I made it up. In my dream I knew the answer. The first answer was “cosine.” The second answer was: “It is those barred most strongly from the way who knock most loudly at the gate.”

…even the wrong turns and side roads have meaning and purpose, if only to teach us which way the path to oneself does not lie.

- Gabor Mate in Scattered

This is interesting. So far, the quotes all fit in with a journey. The wanderer starts out at home, then is barred from the way and knocks loudly at the gate, takes some wrong turns and side roads and thus learns something. Let’s see if the rest of the quotes go with this theme. That would be too cool.

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

-T.S. Elliot

Dig it! This kinds of brings the whole thing back around to home. These are the only quotes in this journal of many moons and this is the order they are in. Very cool. This last quote is also very appropriate for my current project of reading old journals. I’m exploring, hoping to arrive, and know myself more fully than I did before.

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