“No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“My heart told me I was in love. And I fell asleep with a smile on my lips.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“I began to imagine how I would like to be living right at that moment. I wanted to be happy, curious, joyful – living every moment intensely, drinking the water of life thirstily. Believing again in my dreams. Able to fight for what I wanted.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“What do I want to say? I myself do not quite understand. Only that today, when for the glory of God Mokichi and Ichizo moaned, suffered and died, I cannot bear the monotonous sound of the dark sea gnawing at the shore. Behind the depressing silence of this sea, the silence of God....the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.”
― Silence
― Silence
“I'm surprise that after all you've been through, you still keep the faith." "I haven't kept it. I lost it and recovered it.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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