Joseph CampbellA ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life. I think ritual is terribly important.
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Thomas SaszEvery act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
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I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.Lord Dunsany
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The sexual revolution was the application of market values (expanded consumer choice, disposability and interchangeability of objects, merciless competition) to human relationships.Pedro Sousa
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There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness … I must intoxicate myself on magic perfumes in order to fathom the secrets that lie hidden in the abysses of the Unconscious.Carl Jung, Letter to Sigmund Freud, 1911 from The Dionysian Self: C.G. Jung’s Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche
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We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.Hildegard von Bingen
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I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things.
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Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?Friedrich Nietzsche, from ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
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The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses.Arthur Rimbaud
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…Be loyal to the Lord of the Wild Wood,– From the carmina gadelica, ancient celtic oral tradition.
Be true to the Lady of the Stars,
Be true to thine own self besides,
True to the magic of Nature above all else…
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When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot
be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every
human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his
own life, to die his own death.
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Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get
by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with
anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false
serenity
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One tries not to be trapped in the greasy web of superstitions, but these are sticky, dark times, and superstition is impregnating everything with its fetid smell of backwaters and swamps. Ideas are decomposing, noble precepts are slowly rotting, and the smell of decomposition reaches us in waves, suffocates us.The Lizard’s Tail by Luisa Valenzuela
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Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.C.S. Lewis, from ‘Till We Have Faces’.
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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be!Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions
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Oh sun, thou lord of light, and thou sacred fire of Hekate, invoked beside beaten paths. Her radiant darts fly in multitudes through Olympus, she appears on Earth in sacred spaces where three roads meet, her head crowned with oak, and many coils of serpents on her shoulders.Sophocles The Rhizotomi fragment.
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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Don Quixote
(narrator, i.e. Miguel de Cervantes)
(narrator, i.e. Miguel de Cervantes)
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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.Timothy Leary
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.Werner Herzog
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Bataille’s “intellectual violence” delivers the possibility of perceiving violent acts whose effects move beyond the realm of good and evil. Violence is an action that has to take place for something else to happen. All transformation is inherently violent.Cara Judea Alhadeff “Kristeva and Bataille: Archeologies of Prohibition and the Erotics of the Uncanny.”
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Oh God, thou art the stagnant environment’. All is quackery: these religions, whose very existence depends on their failure, are full of misery and confusion. They have only multiplied arguments, and are as full of argument as they are evil. They are crowded with non-essentials, yet are so barren of any free pleasure in either this life or another, that I cannot uphold their doctrine. Their criterion for enjoyment is death! It would be better for a man to renounce them all, and embrace his own invincible purpose. He cannot go any further than that, and this is his only real release. By it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction.Austin Osman Spare | Book of Pleasure in Plain English.
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A man doesn’t borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn’t borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.
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For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can even describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected….The beauty was always there, but moments of true awareness were rare.Jane Goodall
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Whilst we speak languages, languages also - in a sense - speak us. That is, once a system of representation exist, it conditions the way we perceive and think about the world.~J. Walker (1997) Visual Culture: An introduction. Mancs: Manchester University Press: 26
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The moment we believe we’ve understood everything grants us the look of a murderer.Emil Cioran
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I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.Robert Anton Wilson
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SORCERY and sanctity,” said Ambrose, “these are the only realities. Each is an ecstasy, a withdrawal from the common life.Arthur Machen, “The White People”
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.Edvard Munch
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~Jorge Luis Borges
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~Ragnar Redbeard - Might is Right.
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At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus CLXXVIII
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