Story
"We occupy a space of our own creation--a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations." -Willard Gaylin, writer
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. -Henry Miller
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
That's where happiness lies; in the details. Happiness lies in small, particular things. Gloom and depression are general. But happiness is always specific. -Garrison Keillor
For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life, and values are told not by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell, but by a group of distant conglomerates that have something to sell. -George Gerbner, media researcher
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
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear! -Dante The Divine Comedy
"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
"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