“It is by no means certain that the man with good intentions is under all circumstances a good man. If he is not, then his best intentions will lead to ruin, as daily experience proves.”
— Carl Jung
“When a man lacks self-knowledge, he can do the most astonishing or terrible things without calling himself to account and without ever suspecting what he is doing.”
— Carl Jung
This was 16 yesterday. No more mountains or hikes left in her but she keeps on trucking, ever more slowly, and making us laugh every day. Happy Birthday Toast.
The glory of a beautiful Spring day would not exist if not for all the bleak, grey winter ones that preceded it.
Investigate, question, examine, interrogate anything for long enough and sooner or later it disappears.
We educate and pass on our values to our children not by lecturing but by example, how we live, how we behave day in, day out.
A civil and humane society is held together and sustained less by its laws than by the everyday acts of kindness, compassion, generosity and care that individuals bestow upon each other in ordinary day to day life.
“The journey into the self, into the nameless and the formless, is first and last an act of abandonment.”
A still, cool and unnervingly quiet day out there…
Off to see Mother Vera later at the Borderlines Film Festival later. Can’t wait!
