Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends! Happy Thursday Supporters, Members and Lurkers on the lark! How about a few more quotes from Carl Jung? Carl has some good insights to share obviously as one who has observed, listened and reflected upon his own experience and that of others. On to the quotes!
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Religious, spiritual, believer in some High Power or certain there isn't one, kindling a light of meaning is far better than just making your way until you are worm chow. Striving to offer something better to the human experience, your own and those in your spere of influence & interaction is a path anyone can choose to pursue.
The pull to be self-absorbed is probably the biggest threat in this current chapter of human experience. I am sure it has been one of the main challenges we have faced for generations, maybe centuries or it has always been there. Never before has it been so easy to actualize. Self-absorption ends when the comforts of life evaporate. Once you run short on food, water and shelter, your sociability is apt to increase.
There's no coming to consciousness without pain.
The need for others, especially high level self-absorbed souls, will be a painful process. It is a far better thing to have struggled all your life and arrive at comfort rather than to have know nothing but comfort and to end in struggle. I worry that many more are on the later path rather than the former path. The fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper comes to mind, in the original fable the grasshopper is left to starve and die in the winter. Kinder versions & endings have been written, but I think we are headed in the direction of the original ending and its warnings for humanity. The Disney cartoon from the 30's is below. Worth a fun watch especially for us Olds.
And finally . . .
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
While I am a firm believer in the Light, one cannot appreciate it until they really wrestle with their personal darkness. You don't seek healing until you know how ill you actually are, nor do you seek understanding until you realize who little you know. While the darkness is often if not always frightening, on the other side of your adventure there is light. Also, one need not venture into the darkness without a little light to accompany them to a t least show the path a few steps ahead of you.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
