There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside?

— Carl Jung

If we do not accept the existence of archetypes, reading ancient myths and fairy tales can be very helpful because these stories came spontaneously from people who had not studied psychology. The stories came straight out of their unconscious and, therefore, show us how the unconscious works unimpeded by conscious intervention.

— Carl Jung Depth Psychology

There’s a kind of wisdom that only arises automatically as time passes that no amount of learning or practice can induce. No shortcuts. There’s no substitute for the experience of life lived.

Set off early and made it in to work this morning. Many roads still flooded and closed but managed to crawl through some shallow standing water on my way in. My reward? Two bacon and egg rolls and a cup of tea.

It’s weird stepping outside into 15 degree warmth this evening when only yesterday it was -2 degrees.

And the brook is beginning to rage brown as the rain continues to fall.

Twelve hour shift tomorrow. I wonder if the roads will flood overnight again as a few weeks ago.

The Heart says, ‘Enough is enough. What I want, I have.’ The Head says, ‘What’s the plan? What’s next?’ The Manosphere says, ‘Stay hungry! Fight, Fighter, fight!’ The Tao says, “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

Notes on enough

The experience of suffering is no less significant than that of liberation. The experience of confusion is no less necessary than that of clarity. The experience of chaos is not inferior to that of harmony. The experience of separation is no less sacred than that of oneness.

— Shiv Sengupta

For a time, words may encourage and inspire, but if you cling too long to a teaching, any teaching, it will blind you to your own life, your own being, your own truth.

— Robert Saltzman

Yes.

Stillness, the open awareness of what simply is, would appear to be all that is needed: only to give up all of our effort and striving, and quite plainly and naturally rest in the vast openness of what is – which is all we ever were or could be. It really is that simple.

Simple presence