“He has a terrible fear of dying because he has not yet lived…
What is essential in life is only to forgo complacency, to move into the house instead of admiring it and hanging garlands around it…
But why do such nights leave one always with the refrain: I could live and I do not live?”
Archive for May, 2007
“Letters to Friends, Family and Editors” by Franz Kafka
Posted in Moments of beauty on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann
Posted in Literature on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“People do not know why they raise a work of art to fame. Far from being connoisseurs, they believe that they see in it hundreds of virtues which justify so much interest; but the true reason for their applause is an unconscious sympathy. Aschenbach had once stated quite plainly in some inconspicuous place [...]
“First Love” by Turgenev
Posted in Literature on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“My father had a curious influence on me, and our relations were curious too. He took scarcely any interest in my education, but never hurt my feelings; he respected my freedom; he displayed – if one can put it that way – a certain courtesy towards me; only he never let me come at all [...]
Part of a poem by Rumi
Posted in Moments of beauty on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The moment I heard my first love story I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
“The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife” by James Hollis
Posted in Jungian Psychology, Mid-life Crisis on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Romance feeds on the distant, the imagined, the projected; marriage sups the common gruel of propinquity, ubiquity and commonality.”
“Living with another person on a daily basis automatically wears away projections. This person to whom one has delivered one’s soul, to whom one has opened up in intimacy, turns out to be only a mortal [...]
“The Wounded Woman” by Linda Schierse Leonard
Posted in Jungian Psychology, Psychology of Feminine on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Perhaps the greatest wound the man suffers is not to acknowledge his own wound – to be unable to weep.”
“As a daughter grows up, her emotional and spiritual growth is deeply affected by her relationship to her father. He is the first masculine figure in her life and is a prime shaper of the [...]
“Moving Forward” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted in Moments of beauty on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
that I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can’t reach.
With my senses, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
and in the ponds broken off [...]
“The Power of Myth” by Joseph Campbell
Posted in Mythology on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The dictionary definition of a myth would be stories about gods. So then you have to ask the next question: What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universe – the powers of your own body [...]
“Descent to the Goddess, A Way of Initiation for Women” by Sylvia Brinton Perera
Posted in Jungian Psychology on May 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“The problem is that we who are badly wounded in our relation to the feminine usually have a fairly successful persona, a good public image. We have grown up as docile, often intellectual, daughters of the patriarchy, with what I call “animus-egos”. We strive to uphold the virtues and aesthetic ideals which the [...]
“Man’s search for meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl
Posted in General Psychology on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything for the circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded [...]
