Paul

“It is the time of existence in paradise where the psyche has her preworldly abode, the time before the birth of the ego, the time of unconscious envelopment, of swimming in the ocean of the unborn.”
― Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness

“The word “fame” comes from the Roman goddess Fama, the personification of popular rumor. Fama repeated what she heard, first in a whisper to a few others, then louder and louder until all heaven and earth were informed.”
― Sheldon Solomon, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life

“We imagine that we need to be loved and recognized as a totally unique being, as an entity separate from the common mortal by our greatness, and this also is a distorted translation of an essential need, the need to be recognized as nonseparate from the world, as a stream of love independent of an elevated ego.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening