Indeed, Hyde's poetic rendering of how a gift moves to nurture and nourish all is deeply moving, and offers a vision for a new world, which is all the more relevant in today's climate. Thank you for the recommendation, David :)
"Our generosity may leave us empty, but our emptiness then pulls gently at the whole until the thing in motion returns to replenish is. Social nature abhors a vacuum." (2/2)
Lewis Hyde on the nature of the gift: "The gift moves toward the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns toward him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if someone appears elsewhere whose need is greater it leaves its old channel and moves toward him." (1/2)
Reading Charles Eisenstein's Scared Economics and came across this: "The extinction of any species diminishes our own wholeness, our own health, our own selves; something of our very being is lost."
"Pass us by and forgive us our happiness!" the prince said in a low voice. | The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected." | C. G Jung
"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is..."
Jung on neurosis: "There are in a neurosis two tendencies standing in strict opposition to one another, one of which is unconscious. The neurotic is only a special instance of the disunited man who ought to harmonize nature and culture within himself."
Amazing!!
Wow!!
Yes, same here. Work was a little busy so I was away from this platform.
Breathtaking!!
Wow. What an interesting idea!!
Beautiful 😍
I agree. My city is like that at the moment although our autumn colours are different.
Wow! The colours are so pretty.
Wow, thank you for sharing, Rosalind. Will listen to it.
I'll go through next module of the course I recently enrolled in.
Wow! These colours are so striking.
Very interesting.
"It's just that a mother rejoices...when she notices her baby's first smile, the same as God rejoices each time he looks down from heaven and sees a sinner standing before him and praying with all his heart." | The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yes, I am happy to back, Ann. Pumpkin pie, and they also look like a pumpkin rise. The planet of the pumpkins 😂
They seem to have a mind of their own, on their way to somewhere.
Congratulations, @deborahlukovichphd.bsky.social!! So exciting.
Majestic beauty.
So beautiful 😍
The Meddler.
Brilliant! 🌸
‘Omar answers’
The wisdom of the wisest of the wise
Is but the pinch of powder in the eyes
Thrown by the fingers of the fiend, that we
True things from false may fail to recognise.
Hafiz in London, Hafiz
(Translation: J.H. McCarthy)
Thank you for recommending, Thea! I missed these 'conversations.' 🌸
