Darrell Calkins Quotes

Knowledge burnished through suffering becomes wisdom, which eventually opens into the calling to return in innocence to simple harmony.

This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.

One's soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.

Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question.

One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas.

Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values.

A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.

An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go.

We already know way too much, but don't know what to do with it. Beneath all that is a soul searching for how to have fun, in the deepest sense of the word, and how to cause fun for others.

Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue.

It's always an excellent idea to take a good look around at nature.

If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.

If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.

The only resolution is to spontaneously invent an unknown, unique set of qualities and actions so as to blend perfectly with the actual requirements you're confronted with.

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself.

Conscience exists as a reality-check for intent, but it's not intent itself. Anyone who really plays, explores and celebrates life has the right intent.

Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in.

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell.