Month: January 2023

Hunters and hunted

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The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating.

Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted.

We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.


Alberto Villoldo, Cuban Medical anthropologist, writer on Shaminism, Psychiatry with Soul

Hell

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The mind can create its own hell:

Hell is a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement

and where everyone has a grievance.

C. S. Lewis

Want, don’t want

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The more likes and dislikes we have, the more physical and psycho-somatic problems we are likely to develop, worst of all, the more turmoil we will feel inside.

People with strong likes and dislikes go about with a sign that says ‘upset me.’

Everywhere they go, they meet a lot of other people wearing the same sign who are only to happy to oblige

Eknath Easwaran, 1910 – 1999, Indian-born spiritual teacher, author, The  Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living

Just rest

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Once there was a man who hated his own shadow.
When he walked and found that his shadow was close behind him, he began to walk faster and faster.

But every time he put his foot down, there was another step, while his shadow kept up with him without the slightest difficulty.

He attributed his failure to the fact that he was not running fast enough.
So he ran faster and faster, without stopping, until he finally dropped dead.


Those who do not understand the Dao are just like this man who hated his shadow. It is actually very easy to be rid of one’s shadow – just rest under a tree.

Just rest.

Chuang Tzu, 369 – 286 BC, Chinese Philosopher

[The Tao or Dao is the natural order of the universe. Health and happiness comes from being in harmony with this natural way]

Sunday Quote: Natural goodness

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The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted

Diogenes Laertius, 180 – 240 AD, Book VI: The Cynics

Mysterious

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A man who has never experienced this has missed something important. He must sense that he lives in a world which in some respects is mysterious; that things happen and can be experienced which remain inexplicable; that not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.


Carl Jung