Billy Ray Perkins

“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“For the others, like me, there is only the flash
Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one
Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass
To meet one’s madness”
― W.H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation

“The thing that mostly gets in the way of dialogue,” he says, “is holding to assumptions and opinions, and defending them.” This instinct to judge and defend, embedded in the selfdefense mechanisms of our biological heritage, is the source of incoherence.”
― David Bohm, On Dialogue (Routledge Classics)