Life
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller deaf and blind writer
"The lack of meaning in life is a soul sickness whose full extent and full import our age has not as yet begun to comprehend." -Carl Jung
"Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything. Through the creation of meaning...a new cosmos arises." -Carl Jung
"When Americans are asked where God is, they point to the sky; when people from other parts of the world are asked the same question, they point to their hearts. We do not believe that God lives in us." -Ken Hamilton, MD, founder of HOPE (Healing of Persons Exceptional)
The English translation for the Sanskrit word “Namaste” reads, “As I acknowledge and honor the Spirit within myself, so do I acknowledge and honor the Spirit within you.” Longer translations continue, “I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, we are one.”
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin
"What is the source of our first suffering?
It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak.
It was born in the moment
when we accumulated silent things within us."
-Gaston Bachelard
“Mythic images…are pictures that involve us both physiologically in our bodily reactions to them and spiritually in our higher thoughts about them. When a person is aware of living mythically, she or he is experiencing life intensively and reflectively.” -Naomi Goldenberg, Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions
“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