“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why

we get a heartache when we read those lines written

by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own,

as the tender shoots which we stifled

because we lacked the faith

to believe in our own powers,

our own criterion of truth and beauty.

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes

desperately honest with himself,

is capable of uttering profound truths.

We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery

about the origin of things. We are all part of creation,

all kings, all poets, all musicians;

we have only to open up,

only to discover what is already there.”

― Henry Miller

“I was an aesthete rather than an athlete,

and my only wish was

to be an ecstatic wanderer.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred

the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt

I could lean against the cheek of God.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés Ph.D.

“…EACH OF US IS SOMETHING OF A SCHIZOPHRENIC PERSONALITY. WE’RE SPLIT UP AND DIVIDED AGAINST OURSELVES.” 

 — REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“You live in a cosmos

where the light of consciousness

and the darkness of unconciousness

go back and forth.

…but don’t be deceived.

The two are always together.”

 — Alan Watts

“To touch Heaven

one’s roots

must reach into Hell”

— Carl Jung

“Heaven only becomes available

to the man who has dared

to venture into Hell.”

— June Singer

“when I was happy, I didn’t ever wAnt to leave this world,

agrieved that my time here was limited.

There was not enough life in which to

do it, feel it, explore it,

get enough of it into me.

Now I am so terrified and discouraged

by this situation

that I think life is too long an exile

in such a harsh and uncompromising place.

On some level

I intuit that these are the same thing,

different pitches of the same song.

I am experiencing wavelengths of one state.

Bottomless grief is a form of joy.

total despair is in fact

what makes hope and courage possible.”

— Richard Grossinger