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True Nature
We surely don’t admire a tiger that eats apples and lives as a vegetarian. But if in one leap, with a cow in his mouth, he jumps over a fence twelve feet high, that is a good tiger. And so it is with man.. I came to the conclusion that it is really much more reasonable, or saner, or perhaps more corresponding to the unknown will of the unknown god, that human beings should live what they are, instead of just believing something.
C.G. Jung, Visions, 3 December 1930
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“We are daily faced with puppets masquerading as people, blind somnambulists with wads of money for brains, and whiney-needy materialists with possessive fists for hearts. But here’s the thing: it’s not their fault. It’s not our fault. We were raised in a society that is hell-bent on destroying the world and disguising it as production. It’s not our fault we were conditioned to be cogs in a death-machine disguised as noble citizenry. It’s not our fault we were raised cut off from the Great Mystery and, thereby, cutoff from our souls. It’s not our fault our psyche, our need to connect, has been suppressed and stuffed into the furthest reaches of our unconscious, where it festers and poisons us to no end.” — Robert Roskind
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Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s…
