“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
It’s fascinating to watch how quickly and automatically direct experience is transformed into a story and how rapidly that little story is then interwoven to fit, in one way or another, with all the other stories we having running perpetually.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
— Carl Jung
”Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“My job is not to run around doing things. I am a human being, not a human doing.”
Thinking is great fun.
Watching thoughts pop up out of nowhere and then disappear again just as mysteriously.
Hopping on a thought train and riding it to who knows where. All very entertaining.
The trouble begins when you start holding on to them and taking them personally. Identifying with them and believing them to be true.
“Light only has meaning when it illuminates something dark and enlightenment is no good unless it helps to recognize darkness.”
— Carl Jung
“Any idea we have right here and now of what next looks like, is a painting made by our mind, and holds no reality. There is only this, the eternal, ever present here and now, constantly unfolding.”
Looking forward to this. Shifty, the new film/ series from Adam Curtis. UK only I fear 😕
The point of utopias and dystopias is that we end up somewhere in the middle. What we fail to recognise is that we have to deal with aspects of both in an ongoing and perpetual negotiation that never ends. Just like ourselves, society and culture never arrive.
