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Jung on Writing

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 11:53:31 +0000

It has become a necessity for me to write down my early memories. If I neglect to do so for a single day, unpleasant physical symptoms immediately follow. As soon as I set to work they vanish and my head feels perfectly clear.... Something within me has been touched. A gradient has formed, and I must write. -Carl Jung, from Memories, Dreams, and Reflections

The World Will Freely Offer Itself

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:41:24 +0000

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -Franz Kafka

No Wrong Notes

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:37:27 +0000

There are no wrong notes when sung from the heart. -Glen Hansard

The Agony of Spiritual Growth

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:48:14 +0000

The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. -Joseph Campbell

If we could read the secret history

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:28:51 +0000

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Live out loud

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:13:00 +0000

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” -Emile Zola

Vitality

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:52:38 +0000

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” -Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)

Hero’s Journey

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:38:30 +0000

“The artist is meant to put the objects of this world together in such a way that through them you will experience that light, that radiance which is the light of our consciousness and which all things both hide and, when properly looked upon, reveal. The hero journey is one of the universal patterns through which that radiance shows brightly. What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. There there’s also the possibility of bliss.” -Joseph Campbell