Better to give

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love:

The more they give, the more they possess.

 Rainer Maria Rilke

As you do

The self is relatedness. Only when the self mirrors itself in so many mirrors does it really exist. . . You can never come to your self by building a meditation hut on top of Mount Everest; you will only be visited by your own ghosts and that is not individuation. . . . 

The self only exists inasmuch as you appear. 

Not that you are, but that you do the self. 

The self appears in your deeds and deeds always mean relationship.

Jung, Seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra,

The small things

Do not think that love has to be extraordinary in order to be genuine.

What we need is to love without getting tired.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Make something beautiful

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.

Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.

Mary Oliver, Franz Marc’s Blue Horses

The road to enlightenment

Every place is the road of enlightenment

Everywhere is a forest of virtues

Fa-Yen Wen-I, 885 – 998 Chinese Chan teacher

Follow your own path

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way

Martin Buber