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More Beautiful Than Silence
I’ve often seen people become unhappy because they’ve been settling for inadequate or wrong answers to life’s problems; they seek position, marriage, reputation, external success or money, and they remain unhappy even when they’ve gotten everything they were looking for. Such people are usually confined to a very narrow spiritual horizon: if they had lived in an era, in an environment in which man through myths was still in contact with the ancestral world and therefore with nature…
…If great things are going wrong, it’s only because individuals are going wrong, because I myself am going wrong,
— Carl Gustav Jung,
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Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence.
~ Imam Ali A.S
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Hiraeth
n. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home, which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them…It is nowhere and everywhere.
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Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
— Donald Winnicott
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