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I read a computer engineer say that AI doesn’t know what it’s doing or how it’s doing it. I would suggest that neither do we.
I can highly recommend Wim Wenders’ latest film Perfect Days which I took the family to see last night. Very beautiful and profound.
I also recommend this interview with the director but ideally only to be read after seeing the film.
You don’t have to go on the road or travel to broaden your mind or learn or transform or… anything really. You can stay exactly where you are and, with an open heart and mind, the world will move through you.
When fully individuated and wholly awake to impermanence and interdependence then one is free to act intuitively and spontaneously without causing harm or damage to oneself or others.
Our prisons and hospitals are full of people with whom nature has been experimenting to unhappy ends.
Carl Jung
As with all attempts to pin down, define and solidify the world, trying to establish cause and effect leads one inexorably down infinite rabbit holes with no beginnings or ends.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own ego. That is the way we all see each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others - and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
Tennessee Williams
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris
Concurring very strongly with Douglas Harding’s assertion that when we begin to practice we consult the great teachers/ traditions to see if we have got it right but then at a certain point we reconsult them to see if they have got it right!
I often find myself overwhelmed in awe and wonder at the infinite number of perspectives and points of view with which it’s possible to apprehend everything that arises.
Individuation is just ordinary life and what you are made conscious of.
Carl Jung
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whatever arises, love that.
Kavi Jezzie Hockaday
The Truth requires belief. Your own truths are self evident and need no support or validation.
Beware claims of The Truth yet recognise, accept and be grateful for all the myriad truths of who and what you are.
No doubt we are right to open the eyes and ears of our young people to the wide world, but it is the maddest of delusions to think that this really equips them for the task of living.
It is the kind of training that enables a young person to adapt himself outwardly to the world and reality, but no one gives a thought to the necessity of adapting to the self, to the powers of the psyche, which are far mightier than all the Great Powers of the earth.
Carl Jung
Pulling back projections is the most painful, agonizing process in the world.
Because you have to recognize that what you thought was out there in another person is not out there, but inside yourself.
Marion Woodman
A healthy ego forgets itself.
You can’t edit life. You’re either all in or all out.
Anyone who wants to know the human mind will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.
There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, Socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the human soul.
Carl Jung, New Paths in Psychology