As a matter of fact, we are constantly living on the edge of a volcano, and there is, so far as we know, no way of protecting ourselves from a possible outburst that will destroy everybody within reach. It is certainly a good thing to preach reason and common sense, but what if you have a lunatic asylum for an audience or a crowd in a collective frenzy? There is not much difference between them because the madman and the mob are both moved by impersonal, overwhelming forces.
Carl Jung
Very prescient in the contemporary political climate of the last 10-or-so years,
When Zen has done its work it disappears leaving no trace.
We strive for meaning when we fail to recognise our intrinsic wholeness, when we feel separate and forget the impermanence of life. Meaning is always an ultimately futile and temporary sticking plaster over imagined cracks, gaps, and holes we think need filling.
Many of the things I can and cannot do can be explained by a lack of imagination.
But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.Dōgen
Guard against being a slave to words.
The Gospel According to John
There is no elephant in the room. The elephant is the room.
The contemporary social landscape, be it mediated by technology or actual social spaces, increasingly has the unpleasant whiff of competition in the guise of community.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison
I am not one and simple, but complex and many.
Virginia Woolf
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
Wherever you find yourself physically, geographically, emotionally or psychologically, you’re always at home.
Most media opinion, commentary, editorial and punditry and can be boiled down to ‘We don’t know.’
We hope because we fear.
At a certain point it serves no purpose to read more books or hear more teachings. One recognises the similarities, repetition and patterns within the apparent variations. When one truly finds one’s own mind there is nowhere else to go. Everything always continues to change yet one always remains at home in the perpetual flux of impermanence.
Happy Bastards
There is no such thing as lasting happiness. Happiness is the result of a constant ongoing negotiation between two realities that perpetually shift from one moment to the next…
Happy Bastards
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Ram Dass
I had learned that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. Life's greatest problems can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
