Blossom Into You

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.  The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. – Carl Jung

 

• Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.― John O’Donohue

 

• It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us.  Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

• Troubling I sit, day and night. My friends are astonished at me: They forgive my wanderings. I rest not from my great task: To open the eternal worlds! To open the immortal eyes of man inward: into the worlds of thought: into eternity. Ever expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination – William Blake

 

• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth.  The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung

 

• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination—what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth—whether it existed before or not – John Keats

 

• Still, I am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with this spirit that I desire to become in harmony. I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for – Oscar Wilde (De Profundis)

 

• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. – Rabindranath Tagore

 

• Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfilment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfilment.― John O’Donohue

 

• All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.― John O’Donohue

 

• May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.  John O’Donohue

 

• A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. – Maya Angelou

 

• Nothing will work unless you do. – Maya Angelou

 

• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

• The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

 

• Today you are you!  That is truer than true!  There is no one alive who is you-er than you! – Dr. Seuss

 

• You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. – Dr. Seuss

 

• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. – Alan Watts

 

• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.  Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung

 

• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. – Carl Jung

 

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. – Carl Jung

 

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. – Carl Jung

 

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.  Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. – Carl Jung

 

• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. – Carl Jung

 

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung

 

• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. – Carl Jung

 

• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. – Carl Jung

 

• When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.  It’s to enjoy each step along the way. – Wayne Dyer

 

• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose.  There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

• People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross