Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
C.G. Jung, born 26 July 1875, Sun in Leo, Moon in Taurus, Ascendant in Aquarius.
Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life… If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature… Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
Other personalities born today:
Aldous Huxley, born on 26 July 1894, Sun in Leo, Moon in Taurus and Ascendant in Gemini
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
Antonio Machado, born 26 July 1875, Sun in Leo, Moon in Taurus, Spanish poet.
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road– Only wakes upon the sea.
Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.