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The Quality of the Fool – Part V

Part V of The Way of the Fool: the Fool not as a philosophy but as a quality of consciousness — a way of meeting life rather than a doctrine to hold. Library

It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light

It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light George William Russell, or AE as he preferred to be called, Meditation in Candle of Vision (1918): THERE is no personal virtue in me other than this that I followed a […] Poem

this One will live yet

Written alongside The Boy Jumps Ship, narrowed to the Stinger and the Stirring. Library

But man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 391 People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, […] Library

A Narcissist’s Prayer

That didn’t happen.And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.And if it was, that’s not a big deal.And if it is, that’s not my fault.And if it was, I didn’t mean it.And if I did… You deserved it. anonymous, found at https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/4nymz1/a_narcissists_prayer/, accessed 23.03.2020 Poem

Promise of a Man

The awkward attempt at being human, with so much lizard still under the tailcoat.