Life Endures
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away – an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something that lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What we see is blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. In the end the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world irrupted into the transitory one.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
Written By God’s Fingers
“Every man’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers.”
–Hans Christian Andersen (Danish Author, 1805-1875)
Everything That Lives Is Holy
“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life”
–William Blake (English Poet, Painter and Mystic, 1757-1827)
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“Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God.”
–Roman Kroitor (Canadian Filmmaker and Co-Inventor of IMAX, 1926-)
Our Living Globe
“It is easy to forget that man has taken a look at his home from the outside only in the last twenty years and the profound and almost mystical effect upon the astronauts has been embraced by the species as a whole. We can see our planet as an exquisite, luminous, living globe hanging undivided in the silence of space. The testimonies from space bring home with a fresh impact just what a rare and precious opportunity of life we share within the planet as one whole ecosystem and us as a part of it.”
–Yatri (a.k.a. Malcolm Godwin, English Artist, Spiritual Seeker and Writer, 1936-)
“Unknown Man: The Mysterious Birth of a New Species” (Yatri)
Life Is Growth
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
–Morihei Ueshiba (Japanese Martial Artist and Founder of Aikido, 1883-1969)
Discerning the Keys of Life
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Henry Havelock Ellis English Physician, Psychologist, Social Reformer and Author, 1859-1939
The Value of Life
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
–Charles Darwin (English Naturalist, 1809-1882)
The Game of Life
“Life is the game that must be played.”
–Edwin Arlington Robinson (American Poet, 1869-1935)
Reverence for Life
“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.”
–Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian-born Theologian, Philosopher, Mission Doctor and, in 1952, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)
