one of the benefits of growing up with a dad who was an out of print / second hand books seller – or as it was back in the pre computer days , a book scout; was that he would give me little gems that he thought were ” up my alley”. As a teenager i was given things like Henry miller, James Joyce, Tolkien, Tanith Lee, Anais Nin, etc. these days i am no teenager but i am well blessed with books.
currently i am re reading a beautiful book once given to me by my dad. Of course i no longer have the copy he gave me, one of us may have sold it years ago, or maybe it perished in my own great water in the storage space disaster of 2010 .any way I am reading Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton. She was a particularly beautiful gift to me from my father.
If any of you write or art or deal with solitude or depression in any way I would recommend her as boon companion. She seems fond of Jung and so my offerings here are her quotes from Joung :
” I have been pondering two passages from Jung. The first is a key to the dangers of sublimation : “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious” The second is:
” Only the living presence of the eternal images can lend the human psyche a dignity that makes it morally possible for man to stand by his own soul, and be convinced that it is worthwhile to persevere with himself. Only then will he realize that the conflict is in him, that the discord and tribulation are his riches which should not be squandered by attacking others; and that if fate should exact a debt from him in the for of guilt, it is a debt to himself.” – from Journal of a solitude by May Sarton, W.W. Norton New York 1977, page110
so I got mine for .50 used paperback in keeping with my dads school of used book hunting techniques.
why not get your own?
imagine a world where people decide that they are worth persevering with themselves and that “riches… should not be squandered by attacking others!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845386.Journal_of_a_Solitude
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Thanks for the latest, PD. It was a very rought past month, what with almost two weeks of hospitaliztion due to (supposedly) pneumonia and dengue. So far, nothing conclusive, not even after an echo yesterday, prescribed by mine cardio. Will subject ourselves to more blood texts early next week. Happy Thanksgiving day, dear friends, an annual celebration which we miss so badly. The best to all of you and God bless. e/s
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thank you for taking the time to write. so sorry to hear of the difficulties. as always wishing you both the very best of all things including luck and blessings..
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