Carole

“On the aromatic hillsides of Santa Barbara, the villas are all like funeral homes. Between the gardenias and the eucalyptus trees, among the profusion of plant genuses and the monotony of the human species, lies the tragedy of a Utopian dream made reality. In the very heartland of wealth and liberation, you always hear the same question: ‘What are you doing after the orgy?’ What do you do when everything is available—sex, flowers, the stereotypes of life and death? This is America’s problem and, through America, it has become the whole world’s problem”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“He must give up his identification with original unconscious wholeness and voluntarily accept being a real fragment instead of an unreal whole.”
― Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

“Many people use the energy of their nostalgia for paradise trying to get back to a previous state of grace, back to childhood. This is not possible, and people are wiser to use their energy to progress to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Regression is deadly; progression wins one’s soul.”
― Robert A. Johnson, Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations

“If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.”
― Leo Tolstoy