Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. - Edward Hirsch
So much to give, but no one to give it to ‘Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.’ 🖼️
"When I was a child and growing up, books saved me from despair, and it convinced me that culture is the greatest value." Simon de Beauvoir
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” — Buddha
Between green and blue, a cottage tells the tale of simple life's beauty.
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. ~ Robert H. Schuller
“What characterises a normal subject is precisely that he never takes seriously certain realities that he recognises exist.” Jacques Lacan
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.” — Haruki Murakami
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” — Khaled Hosseini
In psychoanalysis there are no immediate answers only the long and patient search for reasons. Jacques Lacan
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." ~ W. Somerset Maugham #WorldBookDay Carl Holsøe (1909)
To our surprise,
we find the child,
with its impulses,
living on in the dream.
Sigmund Freud
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
Jacques Lacan, Often
Art by Edgar Degas, The Little Dancer, models unknown
"The first leaves appear as April draws near.." Steve Sanderson
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. -Charles Dickens
“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.” — Aldous Huxley
“One should not try to eradicate one’s complexes, but to come to terms with them. They are the legitimate guiding forces of one’s behaviour in the world.” Sigmund Freud, 1911
I go to nature to be soothed and healed and have my senses put in tune once more. ~ John Burroughs
Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that ‘I’ and ‘you’ are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were so. Sigmund Freud, Civi and Its Discos
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. Sigmund Freud Tracy Porter
“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.” — Erich Fromm
I never fully process life until I have explored it more deeply on the page. (Art by Sally Rosenbaum)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald (art by Jess Allen)
"The first leaves appear as April draws near.." Steve Sanderson
Happiness is the belated fulfilment of a prehistoric wish. This is why wealthbrings so little happiness, for money was not a childhood wish. Sigmund Freud
“Identification, in fact, is ambivalent from the very first: it can turn into an expression of tenderness as easily as into a wish for someone’s removal.” Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology, 1914
“Don’t we analysts know that the normal subject is essentially someone who is placed in the position of not taking the greater part of his internal discourse seriously? “ Jacques Lacan
"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth." George Eliot
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” — Carl Jung
“The simplest pleasures are sometimes the most extraordinary.” - Edgar Allan Poe (art: Rebecca Dewey)
Only the person who is still capable of silence, who can rest in contemplation, is able to know reality. It is Sunday. Act Accordingly.
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful. The Buddha
Walk quietly into these woods and you will hear eternity speaking. The forest, clothed in its autumn robes, tells of strength in change and of peace in the passing season. Every branch, every fallen leaf, is a lesson in resilience, a song written in color and light, guiding the soul deeper into the wilderness of love. -Etheric Echoes Art: Etheric Echoes
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius
Soft and easy September days had arrived. Evening came early, but the air remained warm and calm. - Arthur Schnitzler
“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.” --Chuang Tzu
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Fresh air and afternoon flair, embracing the simple joys of life."
Silence isn't empty, it's full of answers. Hrisi Kesh
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.” — Sylvia Plath
I don't know if this is reassuring or frightening.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. - Erwin Schrödinger
“When we seek to explore the frontier between the animal and the human world, it is apparent to what extent the symbolic process as such doesn’t function in the animal world - a phenomenon that can only be a matter of astonishment for us.” - Lacan
“The good life can be as simple as just paying attention.” Charlie Ambler
