Here are todays quotes paired with art, because in this busy world, we rarely have time to reflect on the inner, the hidden, and the little known powerful aspects of our human condition.
“The alchemical operations were real, only this reality was not physical but psychological.”
~ Carl G. Jung
"I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us."
~ Herman Hesse
"People believe in progress and culture… There is no progress whatsoever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Man remains just the same. ‘Civilized’ and 'cultured’ people live with exactly the same interests as the most ignorant savages. Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words. But all these fine words about 'progress’ and 'civilization’ are merely words."
~ George Gurdjieff
"Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
~ Anaïs Nin
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors."
~ Andrew Boyd
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."
~ C.S. Lewis
With love,
Doc