Apollo Anderson

“[attention seeking] is a way of wanting something without knowing what it is. A social ability, an appeal to others to help us with our wanting.
To be and make others comfortable with our attention-seeking, we transform it into art, or success, or likable public snippets of our lives. If we were to take these gestures in the literal sense, maybe all we’re trying to communicate is that we want to be cared for. ”
― Adam Phillips

“Gods are metaphors transparent to transcendence. And my understanding of the mythological mode is that deities and even people are to be understood in this sense, as metaphors. It’s a poetic understanding. It is to be understood in the same sense as Goethe’s words at the end of Faust: “Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis” (“Everything transitory is but a reference”).”
― Joseph Campbell, Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine

“A madman who believes himself to be a king is no more mad than a king who believes himself to be a king”
― Lacan Jacques M.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, 

there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

The world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other

Doesn't make any sense.”
― Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi), The Essential Rumi (2020): Translations By Coleman Barks with John Moyne