Starbucks in The Apocalypse

Painting by Marney Ward

The distance from the heart to the head is sometimes 30 years, sometimes a whole lifetime : “We say, “You know it in the head, but you don’t know it in the heart.” There is an extraordinary distance from the head to the heart, a distance of ten, twenty, thirty years, or a whole lifetime.”
C.G. Jung, Seminars on Kundalini Yoga

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You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
There is nothing else to do now but rest
And patiently learn to receive the self
You have forsaken for the race of days.
At first your thinking will darken
And sadness take over like listless weather.
The flow of unwept tears will frighten you.
You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.

~Fragment of a poem by John O’Donohue

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The soul’s complaint as I hear it now is this: Why am I so neglected in your theories of the universe? Why am I given such a contingent place in the scheme of things? Why does the creation myth by which everything is explained in Western culture — evolution through time…