One can produce a thousand words, a thousand descriptions, and yet the essential is still not expressed, the entirety is not portrayed. It transcends knowledge and language, and remains a mystery.
Carl Jung – On Wholeness and the Limits of Language
I am content to live in the mystery, to be surrounded by the unknown…
I am Content to Live in the Mystery
If you don’t know what to do next just wait and see what you next do.
Action is spontaneous and inevitable.
We don’t have ideas, ideas have us.
Carl Jung
When it is said that our natural state is either this or that my first instinct is to say we have no natural state. Our life is perpetual flux and impermanence. No state or condition lasts. If we must say what we most naturally are then surely it must be continuous change.
Suffering is the price we pay for embodiment.
Robert Saltzman
All we can give is everything we have.
Nothing happens in which you are not entangled.
Carl Jung
Nothing happens in which you are not entangled.
Carl Jung
Nothing happens in which you are not entangled.
Carl Jung
I don’t remember my dreams. I can’t remember the last time I was able to recall one.
This morning however I have the vaguest sense of a dream. It feels as if it was long and complicated and filled with lots of people yet I have no details to back that up. No clear images or feelings. No lingering mood just the merest whisp of a period of activity.
How strange the mind.
I couldn’t care less whether I remember my dreams or not, I’m just curious about what the mind gets up to while I sleep.
Returning to the wordless…
Many of one’s own most wise and poignant insights arise out of confusion, pain, uncertainty, loss, chaos and so-called ignorance (of concepts & language) – profound unknowing.
Following others, however wise they may seem, impedes finding one's own freedom, which is not a matter of becoming or transcending anything, but of simple openness to this once-upon-a-once, never-to-be-repeated instant.
In that posture, one lives step by step, one moment at a time, free of acquired ‘ultimate knowledge,’ using the intelligence of this moment, without fixing on myself and my happiness.
Robert Saltzman
I read Jung not as a scientist or psychologist but as a symbolic artist. For me his work is not literally describing reality but rather rendering truth via symbol.
What a beautiful passage from Carl Jung (my emphasis):
At times I am as laid out in the countryside and in the things themselves, and live in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds, the animals that come and go, and in the things … here is space for the spaceless Empire of the background.
Carl Jung – Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Non duality is not the pinnacle, an end point, the final goal and resting place. It is simply one perspective on the spectrum of our aliveness.
It has no more important place or role to play than any other perspective. Alas, it is fetishised as the ultimate attainment.
There is no ultimate attainment. There is simply the myriad manifestations of our aliveness unfolding as it does.
There’s no avoiding anything. Everything reaches you eventually.
Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.
Nick Cave
Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.
Nick Cave
Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.
Nick Cave