A common space for harmonic peacemakers
"There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and
that is your salvation......What is to come will be created in you and from you.
Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is
like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way
that is in you." [The Red Book, p. 130]
Image [p. 129 The Red Book]
Copy of Jung photo 8-11-04 Lake Zurich, Switzerland.
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“Unexpressed emotions will never die.
They are buried alive and they will
come forth later in uglier ways.”
~ Sigmund Freud
"The gods have become our diseases.”
― C.G. Jung
Well, what makes people lovable is nothing inherent in themselves, but the way view them.
What is lovable tome may not be to anyone else.
If I am full of love, every one seems lovable to me.
Lawrence was writing from the perspective of a society still breaking free from hundreds of years of repressed id.
And I’m guessing he wrote this before WW II
It seems our desire to be elemental is as likely to produce a Hitler or Manson, as it is to produce a noble savage.
I think there’s a very wide spectrum as to how we approach our shadow.
With 7 billion possibilities, the specific biochemistry of each person will incline them to be more or less passionate. More or less logical.
Swedenborg or Blake? Either/or. Or some of both!
D.H. Lawrence under a tree.
Why don't people leave off being lovable
Or thinking they are lovable, or wanting to be lovable,
And be a bit elemental instead?
Since man is made up of the elements
Fire, and rain, and air, and live loam
And none of these is lovable
But elemental,
Man is lop-sided on the side of the angels.
I wish men would get back their balance among the elements
And be a bit more fiery, as incapable of telling lies
As fire is.
I wish they'd be true to their own variation, as water is,
Which goes through all the stages of steam and stream and ice
Without losing its head.
I am sick of lovable people,
Somehow they are a lie.
D.H. Lawrence
Ah, he was sop wise, and adventurous!
“For it is not only lethargy alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves in the same old way with such unspeakable monotony in instance after instance; it is the fearful shying away from any kind of new, unforeseeable experience which we think we may not be equal to. But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
Only him, could have described so well...
“To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
- Ellen Bass
"PEACE
NOT WAR
GENEROSITY
NOT GREED
EMPATHY
NOT HATE
CREATIVITY
NOT DESTRUCTION
EVERYBODY
NOT JUST US"
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