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Loving What We Love
Don’t ever be ashamed of loving the strange things that make your weird little heart happy.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
— Anne Lamont
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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul,
Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. Even the best attempts at explanation are only more or less successful translations into another metaphorical language. (Indeed, language itself is only an image.) The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do to our own souls as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being. The archetype — let us never forget this — is a psychic organ present in all of us. A bad explanation means a correspondingly bad attitude toward this organ, which may thus be injured. But the ultimate sufferer is the bad interpreter himself.
— Carl Jung
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Wisdom cannot be communicated. Science can be transmitted, but wisdom cannot. You can find wisdom, live it, you can do…
