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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."

Myths may just be the way that our operating system works, which offers a fairly good point of crossover between science and spirituality. In a recent conversation I had with Aodhán Moran (@aodhanpmoran), he added this:

Robert Hopcke on how Carl Jung coined the concept of Synchronicity, which has now been adopted into common parlance, Jung gets to tell us what it actually means.

know thyself, because to not know yourself is to be driven about by unconscious impulses without understanding their origins or desired ends

An integrated individual is one who carries his own dark shadow of undesirable qualities, frees those around him from his projections, and by so doing actually transforms a fraction of the evil in the world.~Irene Claremont de Castillejo, Knowing Woman

@realAtlasPress @BrandonLukeMc For the majority of your existence, you are the only observer

Sometimes reading Steinbeck is like getting kicked in the chest

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.