Credit: Poetic Outlaws (Facebook) “The world will never lack wonders; what it lacks is wonder. We grow blind not because the light is dim, but because we forget to look. The moment a man learns to marvel again, he steps back into the richness of reality.” — G. K. Chesterton

“Jung has said that to be in a situation where there is no way out, or to be in a conflict where there is no solution, is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution: the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put ego-consciousness up against the wall, so that the man has to realise that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision. Naturally, if a man says, "Oh well, then I shall just let everything go and make no decision, but just protract and wriggle out of [it]," the whole thing is equally wrong, for then naturally nothing happens. But if he is ethical enough to suffer to the core of his personality, then generally because of the insolubility of the conscious situation, the Self manifests. In religious language you could say that the situation without issue is meant to force the man to rely on an act of God. In psychological language the situation without issue, which the anima arranges with great skill in a man's life, is meant to drive him into a condition in which he is capable of experiencing the Self. When thinking of the anima as the soul guide, we are apt to think of Beatrice leading Dante up to Paradise, but we should not forget that he experienced that only after he had gone through Hell. Normally, the anima does not take a man by the hand and lead him right up to Paradise; she puts him first into a hot cauldron where he is nicely roasted for a while.” ― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition Art: Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car, c. 1824–7, William Blake

"And the moment you stop thinking, you come into immediate contact with what Korzybski called so delightfully “the unspeakable world”—that is to say, the nonverbal world. Some people would call it the physical world. But these words—“physical,” “nonverbal,” “material”—are all conceptual. And [CLAP] is not a concept. It’s not a noise, either. This. [CLAP] Get that? So when you are awake to that world, you suddenly find that all the so-called differences between self and other, life and death, pleasure and pain, are all conceptual, and they’re not there. They don’t exist at all in that world which is [CLAP]." -Alan Watts, 'ZEN BONES,' 1967, at 00:17:31

“Though the body grows old and bears the ache and weight of many days, the life by which it lives is young, for life is young or it does not exist, is not even dead. And so as I walk in the land’s holy Sabbath Under the tall trees, I come at once into the old young joy that has moved me all my life to be here in the early morning light.” —Wendell Berry

"Don't lose the trail of wisdom's scent. While on this hunt, don't go astray, worrying if every little thing is good or bad. You are the traveler, you are the path, and you are the destination. Be careful never to lose the way to yourself." — Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi

Credit: Non-GMO project (Facebook) “Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments, still owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Paul Harvey (1978)

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.” —Tom Robbins

Crows in Winter ~ NC Wyeth

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — ‘Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’” - John Steinbeck

Ronald George Lampitt (1906 ~ 1988) 'Skating by Moonlight' 1959 Christmas card illustration for the Group of Charities. #illustration

Credir: Garden Lover (Facebook) "Simple cold frame by stacking straw bales into a rectangle and placing old window panels on top. The straw acts as natural insulation, keeping the soil warm while the glass helps trap sunlight. It’s perfect for starting early veggies, protecting tender plants, and extending the growing season in a budget-friendly way!"

"When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication. This is, of course, a highly peculiar way of looking at oneself, and it is not at all easy to get used to it. But it is the only way to get out of the trap of the social double-bind, the trap in which we are caught when we try to be both separate and connected at the same time." ~ Alan Wilson Watts 1915-1973. The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are 1966. Image by - Chemical Messiah