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C.G. Jung
“I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully & as carefully as you can—in some beautifully bound book. It will seem as if you were making the visions banal—but then you need to do that—then you are freed from the power of them. . . . Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book & turn over the pages & for you it will be your church—your cathedral—the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them—then you will lose your soul—for in that book is your soul.”
C.G. Jung, Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given 1930-1934

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
Hazel Rochman

Rebecca Solnit
“Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches beyond the horizon, beyond our capacity to perceive or measure, and that in many cases those who trespass against you do so out of a misery that means the punishment preceded and even precipitated the crime. Maybe that's acceptance.”
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

Rebecca Solnit
“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.”
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

Rebecca Solnit
“Stories like yours and worse than yours are all around, and your suffering won’t mark you out as special, though your response to it might.”
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

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