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Kazuo Ishiguro and what it takes to truly grow. “In any case, there is surely no great shame in mistakes made in the best of faith. It is surely a thing far more shameful to be unable or unwilling to acknowledge them."

Children crave certainty. Amongst adults certainty on any side fosters division, fear, and othering.

@TheaEuryphaessa Word

Addiction in general—you can say—is a longing for an ecstatic religious state because life is dreary, meaningless and boring. One's work has no meaning, or the home life is cold and unsympathetic. Then there is this longing for an ecstatic state. —Marie-Louise von Franz, The Cat

The attachment to beliefs is The greatest shackle. To be free is To know that One does not know. ~ Wu Hsin

Myth brought us from the past and it will take us forward forever. From my conversation with Leigh Melander.

I've found so much more value in stories and myths when I internalize them as psychological truths rather than external realities.

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

"It is only through some kind of delight, some feeling of joy or pleasure or some genuine affection or desire, that a person can work and bring about any change of being in himself. Fear, for example, will not act in this way…"

“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” ― Marie-Louise von Franz

Leigh Melander on how frivolity and play can lead to stress release and relaxation.

The journey of exploration is more important than the destination.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Irreverence as a means of discovering synthesis between ideas.

People get emotionally attached to their working hypothesis as though it were an eternal truth, and then naturally this becomes a prison which hampers the development of consciousness, as much as it once before helped it along. ~Marie Louise von Franz

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.~Alan W. Watts

I was raised in a religion that very much emphasized reverence - quiet, calm, still. But a bit of irreverence is a great way to foster some creativity and challenge the norms that don't sit right with you.

Leigh Melander on the effectiveness of offering others invitations rather than demands

It's felt for some time as of we're in a new collective awakening, a new enlightenment, taking an evolutionary leap forward. Yes, there are many who still clinging too tightly to external things, but there are so many who are waking up to internal stirrings.

Take it from me, a recent empty nester: The Good Old Days don’t feel like it at the time. It feels more like hard work and struggle. The days are long but the years fly by. Then, one day you wake up and the house is quiet. One of my most cherished memories is coming home from work each day and opening the creaky back door to our 1947 craftsman home. My 3-year-old daughter (now 21) would drop her toys and run down the hall—her footsteps booming on the old wood floor—to greet me. I love my life and don’t want to go back, but I do wish I could pass one message across time to 35-year-old me: You’re living the Good Old Days right now. Savor every moment.

It's felt for some time as of we're in a new collective awakening, a new enlightenment, taking an evolutionary leap forward. Yes, there are many who still clinging too tightly to external things, but there are so many who are waking up to internal stirrings.

Human of the past weren't so different from us today. Family has always been foremost, and shouldn't this be the case? In a recent conversation @lbetzig had this to say about it: