How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow?
I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul // C.G. Jung
philosophy
MIND: Stalled
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
The Power of Now // Eckhart Tolle
SOL: Structure
One day none of this
will matter. I wanted to
make some sense of it.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 179.”
MIND: Dilemma
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
// Socrates
MIND: Green
Money-makers are tiresome company,
as they have no standard but cash value.
The Republic // Plato
MIND: Clarity
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.
// C.G. Jung
MIND: Stable
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
// Immanuel Kant
MIND: Fools
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing,
you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time.
You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living,
that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing, which is stupid.
// Alan Watts
MIND: Grounded
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting,
as it were, into the system of being,
in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
// Jean-Jacques Rousseau
MIND: Brooding
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone,
ask yourself the following question:
What fault of mine most nearly resembles
the one I am about to criticize?
Meditations // Marcus Aurelius
