𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐤𝐮𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬! “It is said the Englishman’s home is his castle. And everybody needs a castle, a place where you can get away from it all and just be yourself. But even then, when you’re away from it all and you’re just being in yourself, you’ve unfortunately got a lot of thoughts inside your head that aren’t yours. Because you think in the English language, and that was given to you by other people and contains their prejudices; that you can’t avoid them in thinking. Japanese people will say that when they think in Japanese they can have certain feelings that are characteristically Japanese, but when they start thinking in English they can’t have those feelings. And so you are very, very much, really, in the sphere of public influence when you start to think. And if you listen carefully to your thoughts—insofar as they are uttered in words, and they very often are—try and discover the tone of voice in which certain of your thoughts are being said, and you will listen and hear your mother, or you will hear an aunt, or you will hear a school teacher, or will hear certain friends expressing their opinions and telling you who you are and how you ought to behave. And you think those are your thoughts and they’re nothing of the kind. An inner pandemonium under the dome of the skull is going on all the time. Myriads of voices, myriads of influences from outside working upon you even when you are physically quite alone.” — Alan Watts, 'COSMIC NETWORK', at 01:53:51

credit: Portal Ibis (Facebook) "He who ventures courageously into a labyrinth seeking to find the truth of his life is forced by its circuitous pathways to circumambulate the center of himself, to learn to relate with it and to perceive it from all sides. He can only reach it by passing through the entire interior space of the labyrinth beforehand, by relating to all of its dimensions, and integrating them all into the wholeness of his personality. In fact, in a labyrinth all passages lead into each other, making up an interconnected whole." — The Labyrinth by Helmut Jaskolski “We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.” — Joseph Campbell “Only he who finds the entrance hidden in the mountain and rises up through the labyrinths of the innards can reach the tower, and the happiness of he who surveys things from there and he who lives from himself.” — Carl Jung Art: Spiral Journey, c. 1962 by Remedios Varo

Credit: The Heirloom Gardner - John Forti (Facebook) “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” ― Anaïs Nin Artist - Jef Bourgeau -Stopping by the Woods

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