。"Never forget that you are a man and therefore you must bleed for the goal of humanity. Listen you are still too juvenile for your age. You should get older, the years are dwindling and yet your work has not been accomplished.
Practice solitude assiduously without grumbling so that everything will in time become ready. You should not die unfulfilled. Your years are numbered and many years are still needed for your fulfilment. You should become serious and your work sink heavy as iron into the ground of mankind.
Let go of too much science. There lies the way that is not the way. Your way goes toward the depths, toward the rarest and deepest."
〜C. G. Jung - Black Books.
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“𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓘 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓭𝓸 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓶𝔂 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼. 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓷𝓸 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓸𝓯 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓹𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝓫𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼, 𝓲𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓶𝔂 𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮.”
- 𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓮 𝓐𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓷
"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Don't be a Gradgrind. Read nursery rhymes to your kids. Lots of nursery rhymes.
And if you do have a bit of Gradgrind in you, be aware that there are way more benefits to nursery rhymes than their cultural significance (which is undeniably huge). They are foundational building blocks to linguistic development. The rhyme schemes and repetition help children learn to recognize the natural patterns in our language. The syntax and vocabulary are invaluable to language development. They are mini stories, paving the way for longer formats like picture books and novels. And they do all of this in a neat little package that holds a strong natural appeal to little ones. I see strong parallels to Shakespeare – sophisticated language patterns, beautiful and unique phrases, timeless stories, all in a neat, pleasing package.
"A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and real; the latter is necessarily amorphous and more easily guided by those who can manipulate human actions and beliefs."
~Robert A. Nisbet
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“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"...And in eternity, you will not be asked inquisitively and professionally, as though by a newspaper reporter, whether there were many that had the same wrong opinion. You will be asked only whether you have held it, whether you have spoiled your soul by joining in this frivolous and thoughtless judging, because the others, because the many, judged thoughtlessly. In eternity it will be asked whether you may not have damaged a good thing, in order that you also might judge with them that did not know how to judge, but who possessed the crowd’s strength, which in the temporal sense is significant, but to which eternity is wholly indifferent."
~Søren Kierkegaard
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“Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles; and were, indeed, the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion.”
~Edmund Burke
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"A wise man does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus -
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"What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward and isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen."
~Hermann Hesse
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"Do you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibility? Or do you press yourself into the crowd, where the one excuses himself with the others, where at one moment there are, so to speak, many, and where in the next moment, each time that the talk touches upon responsibility, there is no one? Do you judge like the crowd, in its capacity as a crowd? You are not obliged to have an opinion about what you do not understand, but you are eternally responsible as an individual to render an account for your opinion, and for your judgment..."
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