Haiku: “Understand”
Written by Jennifer Kiley
illustrated by j. kiley
Created 04.19.13
Posted 04.19.13
QUOTATIONS on UNDERSTAND/DARK NIGHT of the SOUL:
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” ― Virginia Woolf
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ― Rumi
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It’s a dream already ended. There’s nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Portable Jack Kerouac
“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed” ― Thomas Moore
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.” ― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.”
― William Wordsworth
“A cathartic experience is when emotional pain, held in the body’s sentient memory, finds its way into consciousness. It is expressed through crying, or the release of anger, or a whole gamut of other, previously unexpressed emotions, such as the joy we could not feel because it had been snatched away in moments of toxic intervention by others. Catharsis is the moment of cognition when we make those links and purge those wounds…The nature of emotional pain is transfigured when wounding is fully re-encountered on the emotional level on which it originally occurred. Catharsis precedes deep transformation.” — Dr. Niamh Clune, The Coming of the Feminine Christ
“The spirit has spoken the ancient, primordial language of Colour. The mental body has translated it into the language of soul, which is the universal language of symbolism. The physical brain interprets its meaning according to the framework of knowledge at its disposal. The brain sends its signals through the nervous system which manifest eventually as physical response.” — Dr. Niamh Clune, The Coming of the Feminine Christ
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