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Where is The Beauty of Life?
“ Much anxiety surrounds the question of how good the next generation will be at math; very little around their abilities at marriage or kindness. We devote inordinate hours to learning about tectonic plates and cloud formations, and relatively few fathoming shame and rage.
We are, in terms of wisdom, little more advanced than the ancient Sumerians or the Picts. We have the technology of an advanced civilization balancing precariously on an emotional base that has not developed much since we dwelt in caves. We have the appetites and destructive furies of primitive primates who have come into possession of thermonuclear warheads.
There are few catastrophes, in our own lives or in those of nations, that do not ultimately have their origins in emotional ignorance.” — Alain de Botton
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‘As an instinct, the creative is a necessity of life, and the satisfaction of its needs a requirement for life. In the human being, creativity like the other instincts requires fulfillment. According to Jung’s view of man, activity and reflection are not enough, there is a fifth component(instinct), as basic in man as hunger and sexuality. the quintessentia of creativity’. — James Hillman
“We were not meant to live shallow lives, pocked by meaningless routines and the secondary satisfactions of happy hour. We are…
