A Passion for Love & Wisdom Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin A New Years Blessing Out with the old…
Inspirational VLOG Words of Wisdom Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William James Belief and Inner Wisdom Practicing psychology, I often surround myself with a continual drive to explore the tenets of personal development. However, I have often noticed that the road forks, especially when ideals…
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~ Carl Jung Consciousness & Inner Light Have you ever told the story of…
Words of Wisdom “But effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” ~John F. Kennedy A Philosophy of Purpose Purpose knows no bounds. It doesn’t move in any unilateral direction. It does not know left or right, up or down, male or female, black or white, night or day. It only knows right…
Words of Wisdom As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. ~ Carl Jung A Philosophy of Purpose What would the field of psychology be without that ever-nagging pull for people to kindle a light from the meaning…
Words of Wisdom You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill Greatness in Responsibility Where has the responsibility gone? As I see so much screaming about rights, what is right, and privileges people feel entitled to, I cannot help but think, where…
Words of Wisdom Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Philosophical Tidbits of Wisdom As a person steps onto the stage, facing those inner daemons that have called to them for countless hours, days, and…
Words of Inspiration Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse Don’t go through life, grow through life. Eric Butterworth Philosophical Food for Thought To go within. That is the key to independence. So often, we look for meaning on the outside. We yearn to find happiness in the next activity, the next thing of material success, but…
Inspirational Quotes Philosophical Food for Thought It is far too easy to get caught in the winds of change. In the whirling nature of what constitutes life itself, we often forget that the seedlings of peace begin in the space that separates our ears, eyes, and nose from our mouth. What blessings may happen if…
Words of Wisdom Finding Stillness Wake up. Wake up, young one. It’s time to wake up. There is all this business, but to what end? Lao Tzu gives us a basic philosophy here, but its depths reach far beyond the fallibility of human rationale. They touch upon the imaginal, that realm where all possibility exists,…
Entering the Secret Garden Carl Jung once said, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Often, when we look inside the psyche, we find cold desert nights, where wastelands of unrealized dreams or under-realized potential hold us back from engaging that dream we yearn to see come to fruition. However, this need not be…
Words of Inspiration Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie Philosophical Tidings Nothing in life is to be feared, not even fear itself. When we are scared, we enter the fight or flight mode,…
