Aeternella

“As I see it, the three-dimensional world in time and space is like a system of co-ordinates; what is here separated into ordinates and abscissae may appear “there,” in space-timelessness, as a primordial image with many aspects, perhaps as a diffuse cloud of cognition surrounding an archetype. Yet a system of co-ordinates is necessary if any distinction ofdiscrete contents is to be possible. Any such operation seems to us unthinkable in a state of diffuse omniscience, or, as the case may be, of subjectless consciousness, with no spatio-temporal demarcations. Cognition, like generation, presupposes an opposition, a here and there, an above and below, a before and after.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“The individual on his lonely path needs a secret which for various reasons he may not or cannot reveal. Such a secret reinforces him in the isolation of his individual aims. A great many individuals cannot bear this isolation. They are the neurotics, who necessarily play hide-and-seek with others as well as with themselves, without being able to take the game really seriously. As a rule they end by surrendering their individual goal to their craving for collective conformity—a procedure which all the opinions, beliefs, and ideals of their environment encourage. Moreover, no rational arguments prevail against the environment. Only a secret which the individual cannot betray—one which he fears to give away, or which he cannot formulate in words, and which therefore seems to belong to the category of crazy ideas—can prevent the otherwise inevitable retrogression.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“An orgasm is a domination, a surrender, or a breaking through. Nature is no respecter of human identity. This is why so many men turn away or flee after sex, for they have sensed the annihilation of the daemonic.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“We shy away from the word “eternal,” but I can describe the
experience only as the ecstasy of a non-temporal state in which present,
past, and future are one. Everything that happens in time had been
brought together into a concrete whole. Nothing was distributed over
time, nothing could be measured by temporal concepts. The experience
might best be defined as a state of feeling, but one which cannot be
produced by imagination. How can I imagine that I exist simultaneously
the day before yesterday, today, and the day after tomorrow? There
would be things which would not yet have begun, other things which
would be indubitably present, and others again which would already be
finished—and yet all this would be one. The only thing that feeling could
grasp would be a sum, an iridescent whole, containing all at once
expectation of a beginning, surprise at what is now happening, and
satisfaction or disappointment with the result of what has happened. One
is interwoven into an indescribable whole and yet observes it with
complete objectivity.”
― C.G. Jung