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• In Greek mythology, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the Sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Wikipedia
• Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. J. K. Rowling
• Hope,   Adversity,  Triumph,  Making a fresh start,   Birds

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The phoenix is a metaphor for the arising of greatness in the midst of turmoil and destruction …

• Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes. Carl Sagan
• For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth.  Zoe Skylar
• I’ve died a thousand deaths, each time reinventing myself brighter, stronger, and purer than before. From the midst of destruction, I became the creator of myself. From the midst of darkness, I became my own source of light. Cristen Rodgers
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… the emergence of a stronger and better self after the test of a severe trial

• What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. Charles Bukowski
• And just as the Phoenix rose from the ashes, she too will rise. Returning from the flames, clothed in nothing but her strength, more beautiful than ever before. Shannen Heartzs
• You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame. Akilnathan Logeswaran
• We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.  Maya Angelou
• Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond. John Mark Green
• She never seemed shattered; to me, she was a breathtaking mosaic of the battles she’s won. Matt Baker
• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. Maya Angelou
• We are more than the worst thing that’s ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing.  Clementine von Radics, Broken
• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. Haruki Murakami
• Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away. Pema Chodron
• Aversity, Strength

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The phoenix is a metaphor for the power of hope after dreams are shattered

• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.  Miguel de Cervantes
• Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. S.A. Sachs
• Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Maya Angelou
• Dreams,  Hope

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The phoenix is a metaphor for grace and redemption after deep grief

• And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die. May Sarton
• Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song. J. K. Rowling
• Grace,   Grief

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The phoenix is a metaphor for the power of faith and trust in the midst of darkness

• Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.  Rabindranath Tagore
• I no longer feared the darkness once I knew the phoenix in me would rise from the ashes. William C. Hannan
• Faith must be tested, because it can only become your intimate possession through conflict.  Oswald Chambers
• Faith,  Darkness

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The phoenix is a metaphor for making a new start when all has been lost

• We are like the phoenix,” said Abuelita. “Rising again, with a new life ahead of us. Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Once you’ve had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix. Sharon Stone
• Its never to late to make a fresh start

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The phoenix is a metaphor for rebirth; for becoming something new

• Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!  Friedrich Nietzsche

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The phoenix is a metaphor for the ebbs and flows of passion

• And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. Khalil Gibran
• Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Ebbs and flows,   Passion

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Most of all, the phoenix is a metaphor for spiritual awakening

• Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come. Peace Pilgrim
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The phoenix is a metaphor for the transformational power of pain and suffering …

• Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. Cassandre Clare
• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.  Marianne Williamson
• In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn.  Octavia E. Butler
• Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive… it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.   Jennifer Weiner
• Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport you to the furthest shore. Buddha
• Suffering can lead to transformation. And redemption. And marvelous mystery. Dr. Allen Hunt
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.  Kahlil Gibran
• Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.  Rick Warren
• If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion.  Eckhart Tolle
• It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. Anne Rice
• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.  Ben Okri
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… the burning of the ego through suffering …

• Suffering has a noble purpose : the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego .  Eckhart Tolle
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering ? No , it wouldn’t . They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow , identified with the external form of things . Suffering drives you deeper . The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form . A lot of it is caused by the ego , although eventually suffering destroys the ego — but not until you suffer consciously .  Eckhart Tolle
• Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.  Eckhart Tolle
• But when the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self- destruct. It has a self- destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.  Eckhart Tolle
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… the burning of our illusions …

• Here in this suffering, all previous beliefs are called into question. They are consumed in the fire sparked and fueled by our own illusion. The pain becomes the ashes we are now entombed in. It is only when we find ourselves at this most imprisoned of junctures that we emerge again, the phoenix of our very life which is ever so much more beautiful than the last one. TEAL
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… a burning which provides fuel for consciousness …

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.  Carl Jung
• Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle
• By suffering consciously, the pain-body becomes fuel for consciousness.  Eckhart Tolle

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… bringing about the arising of the radiant, sacred Self emerging from the ashes

• From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring… J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
• Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self. Karen Salmansohn
• The wound is the place where light enters you. Rumi
• I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. Hafez of Shiraz
• Know you are a sacred spirit

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Suffering only burns the ego when suffering is not resisted

• The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it .  Eckhart Tolle
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering ? No , it wouldn’t . They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow , identified with the external form of things . Suffering drives you deeper . The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form . A lot of it is caused by the ego , although eventually suffering destroys the ego — but not until you suffer consciously .  Eckhart Tolle
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Realise that pain and trial is often necessary for the greatest growth and transformation

• The phoenix must burn to emerge. Janet Fitch
• How can you rise, if you have not burned.   Hiba Fatima Ahmad
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Have faith that you will rise again

• Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, you’ll rise again with renewed vigor, clarity, compassion and insight.  Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
• You forget, fuzzy elf … I’m Phoenix. If I die it’s only to be reborn — hopefully better and brighter than before. Chris Claremont
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Rise from the ashes by letting go of the past

• Don’t hoard the past. Don’t cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge. Janet Fitch
• And when all that was left was ashes, she would again clothe herself in flame. Rising from the dust of her past to rekindle the spark of her future. She was a Phoenix, her own salvation; rebirthed, renewed, resurrected. LaRhonda Toreson
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Rise from the ashes through the power of love

• A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. Rumi
• My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I’m left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix. Karen Quan
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Rise from the ashes through the power of stories

• It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative. Doris Lessing
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Feel the phoenix within

• I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name. Katy Perry

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Rising from the ashes is a question of choice and will

• Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.  Ming-Dao Deng
• Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.  Marianne Williamson
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• God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash, a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past Ani DiFranco
• Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” “…I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.” “Well reasoned. J. K. Rowling
• Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.  Enid Bagnold
• Glory, like the phoenix ‘midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires. Lord Byron

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• I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists. Saul Bellow
• Phoenix, n.  The classical prototype of the modern ‘small hot bird.’ Ambrose Bierce

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Like the Phoenix I rise from the ashes The challenge of darkness May eclipse My thoughts Stealing positive words From my lips Paralysing me to my fingertips But again I will arise once more Like I’ve done so many times before As the crests of the wave Leaves its anchor of the shore” ― Lorraine Day

Ask me no more if east or west The Phoenix builds her spicy nest; For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant bosom dies. –  Thomas Carew