Seth Dowler

“A man in a boat is crossing a river when he sees an empty boat on course to collide with him.

This doesn’t make him angry even though he’s an angry person.

But then he sees someone is in the boat — he calls out, telling them to change direction.

When his first call gets no response, he calls out again.

And when the second is also met with silence, he calls out a third time, throwing in some insults for good measure.

Before, he wasn't angry — now he is.

Before, the other boat was empty — now there's someone in it.

When you imagine the boats empty you won’t be so angry.”
― Zhuangzi

“Psychologically, if we do not reject old habits and beliefs when confronted with the possibility of a better way of being, we end up imprisoned by a tyrannical ego complex that will perpetuate any illusion just to keep control.”
― Dennis William Hauck, The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation

“Certainly this is an animated world, a world of the simplest things. No world of will-be or must-be, it seems to me, rather a world of maybe with entirely undetermined possibilities, a world of colorful twilight. It seems as if there are only modest waysides here, close at hand, no distant targets, no broad straight military roads. No heaven above, no hell below. A strange world in between--everything merges in soft shades--a colorful painting, harmonically fused in itself.”
― C.G. Jung, The Black Books

“His cruelty serves, in part, as a means to distract both us and himself from the true extent of his failures. The more egregious his failures become, the more egregious his cruelty becomes.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man