Carl Gustav Jung

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on August 1, 2021 at 11:36pm

"Yellow, Red, Blue", by Wassily Kandinsky

"The art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts."

- C.G. Jung

Comment by Luna Arjuna on August 1, 2021 at 11:26pm

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!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on August 1, 2021 at 11:12pm

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

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on July 30, 2021 at 4:19pm

Ah, he was sop wise, and adventurous!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 30, 2021 at 3:39pm

“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

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on July 27, 2021 at 8:15pm

Only him, could have described so well...

Comment by Eva Libre on July 27, 2021 at 7:02pm

Art: Ferdinand Hodler

“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

Comment by Eva Libre on July 25, 2021 at 1:31pm

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

James Baldwin

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 21, 2021 at 3:28pm

Camus and his cat

[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.”

Albert Camus

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on July 19, 2021 at 5:08pm

Indeed, that is where the leaders of our countries are at!

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