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The Heart Within The Heart

David Price
3 min readMay 24, 2021

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Weird, Fantastic, Beautiful and Odd

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

— Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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“A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself.”

Herman Hesse

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“Il ne suffit pas de manger bio et de se chauffer au solaire. Il n’y aura pas de changement de société sans changement humain. Et pas de changement humain sans changement de chacun. J’espère que l’Humanité comprendra enfin que la grande mutation sera celle de l’âme humaine.”

— Pierre Rabhi

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“Despite the collapse of the immediacy of mystery into the confines of history, this down-to-earth world is also a mythic place, an ongoing production fashioned and staged by eternity. Despite the pressing problems and mounting concerns, the issue is not so much saving the planet as saving humanity from itself again. When times become dark and difficult the issue for those on earth comes down to living authentically, to authenticating

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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