The word suffer in its original sense means to allow, such as in one of Shakespeare’s dramas when a courtier says, I suffer you to speak before the king. So to suffer creatively is simply to allow wha...
First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own dreams bring to us. The terms and settings of the old myths are str...
Each age needs its own language for understanding enduring truths…The ancient world didn’t have much of what we call reality; they lived, instead, by the slender threads. We have gained ego reality bu...
To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This i...
Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is...
Whenever you have a clash of opposites in your being and neither will give way to the other (the bush will not be consumed and the fire will not stop), you can be certain that God is present. We disli...
There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn’t this happen anymore? Th...
Later I inquired into the origin of the word happy and found that it derives from the verb to happen. In other words, happiness is to be found simply from observing what happens. If you cannot be happ...
If you can touch your shadow—within form—and do something out of your ordinary pattern, a great deal of energy will flow from it.
Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness.
Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely on unconscious expressions: war, violence, psycho...
A man depends largely on woman for the light in the family as he is not well equipped at finding meaning for himself. Life is often dry and barren for him unless someone bestows meaning on life for hi...
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