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The Power of the Image

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:51:21 +0000

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

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

Happiness Is In the Details

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:09:11 +0000

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

When did we start letting the conglomerates tell our stories?

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:57:25 +0000

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

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

The Journey

admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:19:50 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:53:06 +0000

"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

The Creation of Meaning

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:48:19 +0000

"Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything. Through the creation of meaning...a new cosmos arises." -Carl Jung

Accumulated Silent Things

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:13:05 +0000

"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

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