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The Mystery to Be Lived

David Price
5 min readAug 6, 2024

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Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

~ Jung

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Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

~ Anne Sexton

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One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

~ Mircea Eliade

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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

~ Joseph Campbell

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I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory…

That and the idea that we’re in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we’re not.

~ Jean-Luc Godard.

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The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed …

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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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