Thisness

Perhaps that which is beyond articulation is the more real, the more true, the most valuable.

You cannot choose or decide what to understand or when. You get what you get when you get it.

Robert Saltzman

Your goal is not perfection (which is a very one-sided attitude toward life) but your unique totality. During the process you may not know what you’re doing, but as you look back you see that this unknown dream maker has been taking you through a circuitous route to find your totality.

Carl Jung

You’re never too old for this shit.

Language is a world unto itself. An infinite universe of imaginative and conceptual imagery and symbols. Communication is the least of it yet we assume that is its primary purpose. Is it any wonder we remain confused about the nature of things.

It is precisely at the point where we become completely lost that life fully operates.

Kosho Uchiyama

Any search for meaning ultimately leads to the inner “mythical” realm and must be understood as a limited subjective attempt to answer the unanswerable.

Carl Jung

How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

Carl Jung

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