Children come into the world with that sense of celebration and delight in the awesomeness of life. Then we eat of that wonderful, terrible fruit depicted in the story of the Garden of Eden, and our l...
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...
Generally, a mood will run its course in an inteligent man; if a woman doesn't puncture it prematurely, the man will puncture it himself. He will regain his senses somewhere along the way; he will say...
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...
Dr. Kunkel’s teacher, Dr. Jung, believed that archetypes are blueprints of the basic human qualities we all share. The archetypes themselves are undefinable natural patterns or forces that shape life...
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...
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...
Very few women understand how great is the hunger in a man to be near femininity...(b)ut if a woman wishes to give a most precious gift to a man, if she would truly feed this masculine hunger (a hunge...
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...
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...
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...