Taste Like The Sky

[dk-thrive]

“The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown in me a feeling of kinship with all things.”

— Carl Jung

[dk-thrive]

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best.

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one’s best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one’s own will and one’s own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development. When you are up against a wall, be still and put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall.

—  Carl Jung, The Red Book (W. W. Norton & Company; December 17, 2012) (via Make Believe Boutique)

[dk-thrive]

is just as if you were embracing a glowing, red-hot iron

To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing, red-hot iron; it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever. You have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question – whether you can love yourself. And that will be the test.

— Carl Jung, adapted from "Zarathustra Seminar" in Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939 (Princeton University Press, 1988) (via Make Believe Boutique)

[thrdnarrative]

Dakar, Senegal shot by @lonestararchive 2023

[tastelikethesky]

We have on this earth what makes life worth living

the aroma of bread at dawn

a woman’s opinion of men

the works of Aeschylus

the beginnings of love

grass on a stone

mothers who live on a flute’s sigh

and the invaders’ fear of memories

we have on this earth what makes life worth living

the waning days of dawn

a woman leaving forty in full blossom

the hour of sunlight in prison

a cloud resembling a pack of creatures

the applause of a people for those who face their end with a smile

and the tyrants’ fear of songs

we have on this earth what makes life worth living

on this earth, the lady of earth

the mother of all beginnings

the mother of all endings

she was called Palestine

she came to be called Palestine

o lady, beause you are my lady

I am worthy of life

- Mahmoud Darwish

[duino-elegies]

The church of Raron is where Rainer Maria Rilke was buried.

[weltenwellen]

​Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955

[theknitpotato-deactivated202505]

"Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude." - St. John Chrysostom

[petaltexturedskies]

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar

Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire: Selected Poetry, 1965-95

[perfectquote]

“Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.”

— Mary Oliver

[ashstfu]

warsan shire

[ymutate]

Gérard Schlosser (France, b. 1931-)

Charlus, 1971

acrylic on canvas

[dk-thrive]

So i quote you again: (or were you quoting relationship self-help books, not sure?) “do you want to be right or do you want to connect?” as you so magnificently do, see-sawing on polarity and refusing to take a side you knew: the peace is found in uniting.

— Björk, from “A Continuity, Imagined. Conversation with Björk” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[softhe4rted]

to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”

[petaltexturedskies]

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

[thoughtkick]

“Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life – a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, Savor

[weltenwellen]

 Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning