My principle is: for heaven’s sake do not be perfect, but by all means try to be complete—whatever that means.
— Carl Jung
Even suffering is a part of our basic goodness. It brings us into direct contact with reality, cultivates compassion, and builds great inner strength when we deal with suffering skillfully.
— Tim Burkett
I’ve watched her lose so much, but her attention is never on what has been lost. It is always on what is here now.
— Joan Tollifson
Concepts can be discussed forever without needing to put any skin in the game at all—but when this aliveness is cut, it bleeds.
— Robert Saltzman
So finally our beloved Toast went to sleep forever this morning. She kept on trucking right up until she just couldn’t anymore. Great sadness but also wonderful and happy memories, particularly for our son to whom she was so close since he was six. Clocking in at a whopping 16 years and 9 months she absolutely rinsed her innings. Goodbye old girl 👋❤️
It’s easy to succumb to the soothing embrace of words and language when often we’re really falling into a trap.
A must read from Damien Echols.
It’s far easier to imagine a demonic cabal pulling the strings of the world than to admit that most suffering is caused by ordinary human greed, apathy, and unconsciousness.
See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see. All the teacher can tell you is only this.
— Nisargadatta
…but this is hard to talk about, even now. Not because it’s mysterious, but because it’s ordinary. Too ordinary. And nothing is harder to convey than the simplicity that remains when all claims fall away.
— Robert Saltzman, A Clean Slate
Our problem is not that we keep coming up with answers but in believing any of them are THE answer.
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
— Albert Camus
To inhabit silence in our aloneness is to stop telling the story altogether.
— David Whyte
Good morning.
A political situation is the manifestation of a parallel psychological problem in millions of individuals. This problem is largely unconscious (which makes it a particularly dangerous one!).
— Carl Jung
Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.
— Carl Jung
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
— Carl Jung