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Power And Shadow
Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word “Sat” means being. “Chit” means consciousness. “Ananda” means bliss or rapture. I thought, “I don’t know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don’t know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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“It is in books, poems, paintings
which often give us the confidence
to take seriously feelings in ourselves
that we might otherwise never have
thought to acknowledge.”
— Alain de Botton
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The disease suffered by the neurotic — who, while apparently not suffering too badly, has problems and feels a painful lack of vitality — is provoked by an ego that has not succeeded in finding an adequate relationship to the dark aspects of the self.
— Françoise O’Kane
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