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The First Half Of Life Is Devoted To Forming A Healthy Ego

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The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego,

the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

— Carl Jung

  • There Is No Rest For There Are Many Miles To Walk
    There is no rest for there are many miles to walk in the small house, traveling past the same chairs, the same tables, the same glassy portraits on the walls, flowing into darkness. — Horace Gregory From poem Interior: The Suburbs 
  • Marriage Is A Recognition Of Spiritual Identity
    When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. — Joseph Campbell
  • There Is No Victory In The Mind But Desperate Valor
    There is no victory in the mind, but desperate valor, shattering the four walls, disintegrating human love, until the iron-lidded mysterious eye (lowered carefully with the frail body under churchyard gardens) stares upward, luminous, inevitable, piercing solar magnitudes on a fine morning. — Horace Gregory From poem Interior: The Suburbs 
  • It’s Not The Shattering Itself That Breaks You
    The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. It’s not the shattering itself that breaks you—it’s the silence that follows, the quiet space where you realize there’s nothing left to salvage. And in that moment, you know that you’ll… Read more: It’s Not The Shattering Itself That Breaks You
  • I Am Not The Whiskey You Want
    You cannot travel the road until you yourself become the road. — Alan Watts I am not the whiskey you want. I am the water you need. — Rupi Kaur from poem Milk and Honey