The 12 Paradoxes of the Sacred Path

I love quotes that make me think.

The 12 Paradoxes of the Sacred Path ...
1. Do your inner work to address your outer challenges.
2. Be willing to give all to get all.
3. All the answers you seek are within you now, and you’ll need a path, a guide and time.
4. Be focused, discerning and determined, and surrender to mystery in each moment.
5. That which takes from us gives to us: Sickness is a healer, loss is a teacher.
6. Master suffering and self-discipline to understand joy and freedom.
7. You must come to terms with death to embrace life.
8. Your feelings are as important as they are misleading.
9. Be compassionately indifferent.
10. Learn the power of solitude and the importance of community.
11. That which is invisible is real and lasting; the visible is a fleeting lie: Spirit is the driving force behind matter.
12. Live your authentic, true self, and know that it too is an illusion.

Some other great quotes ...

She who sees deeply into
one thing, sees all.
She who looks long into all things,
sees nothing.
-Ancient Vedic Teaching, circa 4000 BCE

If you want to be given everything,
Give everything up ....
Because the Master has no
goals in mind,
Everything she does succeeds.
-Lao Tzu, circa 600 BCE

This is from More Mag, March 2011