“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.
(on being 36 yrs old)”
― Symbols of Transformation
(on being 36 yrs old)”
― Symbols of Transformation
“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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