Sorrow & Joy
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
— Kahlil Gibran
Experience
I believe that an experience is not even possible without reflection, because ‘experience’ is a process of assimilation without which there could be no understanding.
— Carl G. Jung, Psychology & Religion
What is it to be?
So what is it to be? Banality of convention, or banality of individuation? Shall I choose society’s cliches, or my own?
Is it a step forward to have understood that there is no real difference between them?
— Jeanette Winterson, “A Green Square,” The World and Other Places
Man in the Moon
Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay.
The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren’t come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity.
— Jeanette Winterson, “Disappearance I,” The World and Other Places
Contradictions
One of the most attractive characteristics of a person is the way in which they live out their contradictions.
— Karim Ainouz
Musings & Meditations 
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