Balancing chaos
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]
meaning
Out of nothing
To me, one way of looking at this odd building is as some strange creature peering out over the makeshift wooden fence. It’s not threatening […]
To find the idea for which I can live and die
“To be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding […]
It takes wit, and interest and energy to be happy
“Appreciation of life is not easy. One says he must earn a living — but why? Why live? It seems as though a great many […]
Letter to a Young Poet
“But perhaps you have hit upon the ideal of being a poet because you see a poet as an original, a perceptive and a pious […]
Inner and outer purpose have not merged
“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the […]
The great man is the play-actor of his own ideals
A few quotes from an article I came across on Medium (https://medium.com/@dmoore629/climbing-the-ladder-of-selves-86ddaacf72bd) “The philosopher Colin Wilson, in his book New Pathways of Psychology (1972), used […]
The Outsider seeks a meaning and purpose that the everyday world cannot provide
“The Outsider is someone who sees “too deep and too much” and that most of what he sees is “chaos.” He or she lives in […]
Let us learn to play
“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]
