Ian Sanders

Absolutely.

"The human being is not only responsible for what he does, but also for what he fails to do."—Viktor Frankl, ‘The Unconscious God’ (1975)

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #ViktorFrankl:

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I once asked Mme #deHartmann if there was a prayer for people in the work. She said, 'Yes, I asked Mr. #Gurdjieff the same question and his answer was, 'Thank you, Lord, for giving me one more day to work on myself.'

- #JerryBrewster

Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

I yearn for my work, because it always helps me make sense of things. For never was a horror experienced without an angel stepping in from the opposite direction to witness it with me.

- #Rilke

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“In his essays on world events (CW 10), Jung was at pains to point out that society is vulnerable to psychic epidemics, since we no longer have any forms to humanize or contain our nonrational impulses ...”

~ David Tacey, How to Read Jung.

Perfectly captured.

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“A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And — how many of us do know it? Not Lotze. Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up ...”

~ Philip K. Dick.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

- #Gurdjieff

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, everything that led to the Holocaust is in danger of being forgotten.
The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning.
#NeverForget
#NeverAgain

The #Democrats so far ….

Hypocrites—a nest of vipers! Like all narcissists, they aren’t “people” and we make a mistake when we take the bait of their fake empathy. We never trusted them again—we either regulate and tax them into submission or we will lose everything actual people have gained in the last century.

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The Plural Self
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“The plural self is ‘normal’ for Jung, and the aim of psychological health is to bring the diverse parts into living relationship, to act as host, as it were, to a harmonious community.”

~ David Tacey, How To Read Jung.

What a spiritual practice actually looks like–anyone saying anything different is both selling you something and is journeying no longer:

All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.

- #JohnSteinbeck

Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or chance and that it depends upon material causes are far removed from the Divine and from the notion of the One.

- #Plotinus, ' #Ennead' VI.9

Suffering is the price of endlessness.

- #Gurdjieff

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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“To mitigate, let alone prevent, our impending ecological and economic disasters, we desperately need, to borrow Naomi Klein’s words, “a new civilizational paradigm.” And yet, as Klein also realizes, “post-Enlightenment Western culture does not offer a road map ...”

~ Eugene McCarraher.

That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can it be prevented.

- #KarlJaspers, 'The Question of German Guilt'

A tweet from Pop Base reporting on Anders Vistisen, a European Parliament member, responding to Donald Trump’s interest in purchasing Greenland. The quote reads, "Listen very carefully... [Greenland] is not for sale. Let me put it in words you might understand — Mr. Trump, f*** off." The image includes photos of Anders Vistisen on the left and Donald Trump on the right.

I’m glad he said it!

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.

If you yourself are upside down in reality,
then your wisdom and faith are bound to be topsy-turvey.

- Hakim #Sanai, ‘Walled Garden of Truth’

What a spiritual practice (all too often and) actually looks like:

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“There is a universal sense in humans that there is unity and cohesion at the heart of life, and that it is possible for us to be consciously aware of it ...”

~ Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.

- #LinYutang

Quote: "The magic is i the mess"–Brené Brown

What a spiritual practice actually looks like: