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Distant Music
“He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off … Continue reading
Secret Life
“…there is for every man some one scene, some one adventure, some one picture that is the image of his secret life, for wisdom first speaks in images, and … this one image, if he would but brood over it … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, images, Soul, symbols, The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry, W.B. Yeats
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Two Abysses
“We are two abysses – a well staring at the sky.” Fernando Pessoa Cathy McClelland, Raven Reflection (image credit: http://www.cathymcclelland.com/enlarge_htm_pages/Animal/raven_reflection.htm)
The Myriad Forms of Meaning
Image via http://thenewforty.areavoices.com/files/2012/01/spectrum.jpg The following is a beautiful excerpt from a book by Ray Grasse, The Waking Dream: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives. In mythological terms, the process of which the myriad forms of meaning unfold from their … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, dismembered god, Divine, mysticism, myth, Osiris, ouroboros, Ray Grasse, Self-consciousness, Soul, Source, spirit, spirituality, symbolism, symbols, the Self, The Waking Dream, uroboros
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The Secret Speech of the Soul
Blendon Reed Campbell, Dancing Nymphs The language of myth is still, as ever, the secret speech of the inarticulate human soul; and if one has learned to listen to this speech with the heart, then it is not surprising … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, C.G. Jung, Liz Greene, myth, mythology, Soul, symbols, the collective unconscious
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