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Many of one’s own most wise and poignant insights arise out of confusion, pain, uncertainty, loss, chaos and so-called ignorance (of concepts & language) – profound unknowing.
Following others, however wise they may seem, impedes finding one's own freedom, which is not a matter of becoming or transcending anything, but of simple openness to this once-upon-a-once, never-to-be-repeated instant.
In that posture, one lives step by step, one moment at a time, free of acquired ‘ultimate knowledge,’ using the intelligence of this moment, without fixing on myself and my happiness.
Robert Saltzman
I read Jung not as a scientist or psychologist but as a symbolic artist. For me his work is not literally describing reality but rather rendering truth via symbol.
What a beautiful passage from Carl Jung (my emphasis):
At times I am as laid out in the countryside and in the things themselves, and live in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds, the animals that come and go, and in the things … here is space for the spaceless Empire of the background.
Carl Jung – Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Non duality is not the pinnacle, an end point, the final goal and resting place. It is simply one perspective on the spectrum of our aliveness.
It has no more important place or role to play than any other perspective. Alas, it is fetishised as the ultimate attainment.
There is no ultimate attainment. There is simply the myriad manifestations of our aliveness unfolding as it does.
There’s no avoiding anything. Everything reaches you eventually.
Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.
Nick Cave
Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.
Nick Cave
Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.
Nick Cave
The end of a twelve hour shift. As always I’m exhausted but invigorated and rewarded. I never stop being grateful for the privilege of my work.
I was once paid handsomely for a nine to five ‘bullshit job’ and was utterly miserable. I’m now paid peanuts and have never been happier.
I’m fortunate to have found my jam, even this late in life.
It’s essential to make a wholehearted, unconditional commitment to what is.
I could think longer and harder (indeed, at all) about what I write in which case I wouldn’t write anything at all.
For good or ill, what comes out is intuitive, spontaneous and unconditioned without premeditated thought or critical after-thought.
It’s no mystery that it’s all mystery.
For some people the stories about life are more important and have more value than the life actually lived.
The less I know about something, someone, anything, the better.
As mad as this sounds – it’s only just occurred to me – that the reason I do anything is simply to see what happens. I don’t want anything in particular to happen, I’m just perpetually curious at whatever is happening, however that may be.
I’m not seeking or looking for anything. I’m just perpetually curious.
If you get rid of qualities of the Shadow you don't like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter…
If you get rid of qualities …
Every man has a quiet place in his soul, where everything is self-evident and easily explainable, a place to which he likes to retire from the confusing possibilities of life, because there everything is simple and clear, with a manifest and limited purpose.
Carl Jung
Not everything has a story. Not everything needs a story.