What is Real Life?

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Although many human problems are similar, they are never identical. All the pine trees are very much alike (otherwise we would not recognize them as pines), yet none is exactly the same as another. Because of these factors of sameness and difference, it is difficult to summarize the infinite variations of the process of individuation. The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own.”

~Marie Louise von Franz

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Soren Kierkegaard

What is Reality? It’s not what we think it is.

There are as many ways to be spiritual as there are human beings, but religions are codified. They like to lay down rules. Once a person starts to take responsibility for their own soul, the obedience factor becomes problematic.

Inconvenient questions arise. Reward and punishment no longer has the same power to convince. Those who remain among the faithful are required to keep their doubts to themselves.

At age twelve I was afraid of hellfire and brimstone, but a few years later I was not only refusing to believe, I was passionately pursuing my own questions. I was refusing the party line. I had to find my own truth.