“To remain still, to turn from knowing to simple awareness – without choosing, without direction, in open unknowing – really, that is all that is needed. It is so simple, so unproblematic, that we find it the most difficult thing, simply because it seems too good to be true. And yet it is the truest encounter this life affords. In the end, there is nothing else.”
“Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.”
— Carl Jung
“The advantage of so-called ‘free will’ is indeed so obvious that civilized man is easily persuaded to leave his whole life to the guidance of consciousness, and to fight against the unconscious as something hostile, or else dismiss it as a negligible factor. Because of this, he is in danger of losing all contact with the world of instinct. This loss of instinct is largely responsible for the pathological condition of our contemporary culture.”
— Carl Jung
The problem is all the arguments and conflicts between people who think they have the ultimate answers to the big existential questions when, of course, there are no answers.
Booked tickets to see Robert Eggers' remake of Nosferatu on Tuesday. Can’t wait!
As much as I love his films, I can’t get enough of David Lynch’s paintings and photography either…
Sadly I’m struggling to find a way to watch David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Lost Highway. It seems they’re both unavailable to view in the UK. Such a shame. Two of his finest.
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. It would not help you very much to study books only, it would help you most to have a personal insight into the secrets of the human soul. Otherwise everything remains a clever intellectual trick, consisting of empty words and leading to empty talk.”
— Carl Jung