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“Aristotle said29 that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of similarity in dissimilars.”
― Robert Bosnak, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel

“In my dream, the Angel shrugged and said, “If we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination.” And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand. — ERICA JONG”
― Robert Moss, The Secret History of Dreaming

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“The larger the soul the greater the suffering. From suffering comes beauty.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“Human beings cannot live without challenge. We cannot live without meaning. Everything ever achieved we owe to this inexplicable urge to reach beyond our grasp, do the impossible, know the unknown. The Upanishads would say this urge is part of our evolutionary heritage, given to us for the ultimate adventure: to discover for certain who we are, what the universe is, and what is the significance of the brief drama of life and death we play out against the backdrop of eternity.”
― Anonymous, The Upanishads

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain

“What I cannot love, I overlook.”
― Anais Nin

“...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

“The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...”
― James Hillman

“Our dreams recover what the world forgets.”
― James Hillman, Animal Presences