Speaking about the poetic psyche, Slattery writes, “The images are mindful ways of gathering an emotion into a bundle and then allowing the emotion to inform the image, even be the image.” Later he states, I learned that poetry can provoke poetic responses [from the psyche]” (“The Soul’s Claim: Choose it or Lose It” by […]
Follow the White Bull
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you). Each Moment A White Bull Steps Shining Into The World If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature, as if it was one you had chosen. Spare no expense, pay what is asked, when a gift arrives from the sea. […]
The Wind Sends her Love
Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma and endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. –Ikkyu (Zen Inspirations by Miriam Levering, p.40) Christian Parallels Ikkyu (1394-1481) was a Japanese Zen master and poet. His words […]
The Path through Hell
“The road of experiential knowledge that Jung spent most of his life leading people along is clearly not a road that is readily walked. As Jung relates, for many ‘the steep path of self-development is . . . as mournful and gloomy as the path to hell’” (C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity by […]
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