Great Throughts Treasury

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."

"The future is God’s business, not ours. The Runes focus on the present, helping us to get our bearings and determine what is “right action” in any given situation. Which, it might be argued, leads to a good future."

"The Runes are a gift from the ancients that have given me my life’s work and enabled me to be of service to millions of people who I will never meet. I am heartened by the knowledge that this oracular system, this “compass for conduct,” has served so many in such profound and useful ways. So what are the Runes? 24 letters of a two thousand year old Western alphabet, carved on a set of clay stones, with the 25th stone left blank to represent the Unknowable, the Divine. These 25 Runes represent most of life’s major themes: Joy, Partnership, Disruption, Standstill, Movement, Defense, Journey, Fertility, Growth, Harvest, the Divine . . . “This is the only alphabet I know,” Margaret Mead once said, “that goes A-B-C-D . . . X-Y-God…""

"Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self."

"The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."