Your life needs the dark.
C. G. Jung • The Red Book
Life is about depth of experience—how hard you love, how intensely you explore, how sincerely you express yourself—and insight—how deeply you inquire, how discerningly you ask questions. If our culture as a whole truly recognized this, the world would be a very different place.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
I think the point of life is to feel deeply — mostly good stuff like love and pride, but also some bad stuff that broadens your spectrum of experience and allows you to better appreciate the good. For instance, I like sprinting through the city streets at midnight while listening to sad music because it makes my heart feel like it’s being put throu
... See moreMolly Mielke • (self) concept
This is about the forest again—about the limits of genius, about the need to walk the land, as opposed to intuit and hypothesize from the edge. There are dimensions in your words—rhythm, content, shape, feeling. And so too with the world outside. The accretion of imperfect, discomfiting life must be seen and felt so that the space in your mind, gra... See more
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Life and being an “I” is about having experiences in the physical world, about suffering and joy and curiosity and protectiveness and fascination and humor and lack of understanding and an underlying (if only vague) sense of profound loss and fear of death (one’s own and of one’s loved ones). It is not the glib throwing-about of technical phrases t... See more