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The Soul’s Struggle To Be Real
“There is a grid of consciousness out of which the dominant systems arise. This grid is very difficult to transcend: it operates on primal survival frequencies even though it uses elaborate and seductive ways to camouflage itself. Its codes and frequencies are governed by the Lords of Number and numerical manipulation and advantage.. The grid makes us believe we must always be counting how much even as we lose the value of true quality. Only the higher frequencies of selfless altruism can dissolve this grid and free us to live for each other. May all beings be free. May all beings be happy.” — James O’Dea
“I am learning to see. I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of… What’s the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I’m changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it’s obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can’t possibly write to strangers.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
James Hillman said that we should try and find a speech that is pregnant with the ‘voluptuousness’ of the ‘psyche’ and that has the joy and passion of ‘éros’. Put it this way, when Rumi speaks I could listen to him for days. — Jon Wilson
