Brian Holmes
The question is how you rearrange the stars above your head, to open up unexpected paths on the ground beneath your feet. — Brian Holmes, “Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies”
Category: Swiss Culture
Alain de Botton
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon; First Edition, October 3, 2006)
C.G. Jung
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands. ― C.G. Jung, On the Nature of the Psyche. (Routledge; 2 edition July… Continue reading C.G. Jung
C.G. Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. ― C.G. Jung
C.G. Jung
There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell. — C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols. (Dell August 15, 1968)
C.G. Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ― C.G. Jung
Alain de Botton
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved. ― Alain de Botton, On Love (Grove Press; Revised edition,… Continue reading Alain de Botton
Ingmar Bergman
I only exist here as a formality. — Ingmar Bergman, from the screenplay The Passion of Anna (1969)
Robert Walser
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls — Robert Walser. A German-speaking Swiss writer, Walser is understood to be the missing link between Kleist and Kafka. Confined to a sanatorium in Herisau, Switzerland, he used to write ‘micrograms’, (undecipherable short texts handwritten in a nano text-size) and take long walks.… Continue reading Robert Walser
C.G. Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ― C.G. Jung
The Vale of Soul-Making 