“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
— Mark Twain
“In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.”
— Boethius
If we allow them the vicissitudes of life make us instead of break us.
“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 best teacher is always the present moment no matter what is happening.
Feel what you feel, don’t feel what you think.
You can’t edit life. You’re either all in or all out.
Look close enough and all things disappear.
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.
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
“Man’s fate has always swung between day and night. There is nothing we can do to change this.”
— Carl Jung
“Deeply ingrained in the infantile psyche is the conscious or unconscious assumption that the cure for depression is to replace it with pleas and happy feelings, whereas the only valid cure for any kind of depression lies in the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply a palliative, laying the foundations for the next depression. Nothing whatever has happened to the soul. The roots of all our neuroses lie here, in the conflict between the longing for growth and freedom and our incapacity or refusal to pay the price in suffering.”
— Carl Jung
Good morning from The Dead.
Current status: Coffee before work
“We should not try to “get rid” of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is . We should even learn to be thankful for it, otherwise we pass it by and miss the opportunity of getting to know ourselves as we really are.”
— Carl Jung