"For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings,
We must bear the brunt of the danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!"
Terry Hauptman: (from On Hearing Thunder, North Star Press, 2004, p 41):
"To be lost in the desert
Is to find one's way to G-d."
Desert Songs like desert seeds
Parched to bloom
Scattered afar
Aranda footprints
Echo the dust."
John O' Donohue: (from Anam Cara, Cliff Street Books, 1997, p 69):
"The world of thought resides in the air ... Inspiration can never be programmed. You can prepare, making yourself ready to be inspired, yet it is spontaneous and unpredictable. It breaks the patterns of repetition and expectation. Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."
Henry David Thoreau: (from The Viking Portable Library, 1977, p 231):
(From his poem: "Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy")
"On every side he open was as day,
That you might see no lack of strength within,
For walls and ports do only serve always
For pretense to feebleness and sin."
Rumi / (transl. Coleman Barks): (from The Essential Rumi, Castle Books, 1997, p 107):
From his poem: "Someone digging in the ground":
"A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed."
Question Two: "Where now? What now?"
Jung: (p 257): Jung is discussing the introverted sensation type based on his Psychological Types, (quoted in this Penguin edition from his Collected Works, Vol. 6) Note: I assume here he is referring to Trump's psychological type, because it sounds so much like Trump, so I quote more extensively.
"Introverted Sensation: The predominance of introverted sensation produces a definite type, which is characterized by certain peculiarities. It is an irrational type, because it is oriented amid the flux of events, not be rational judgment but simply by what happens ... Actually he lives in a mythological world, where men, animals, locomotives, houses, rivers and mountains appear either as benevolent deities or as malevolent demons. He judges and acts as though he had such powers to deal with, but this begins to strike him only when he discovers that his sensations are totally different from reality ... if he remains faithful to his irrationality and is ready to grant his sensations reality value, the objective world will appear a mere make-believe and a comedy."
Levertov: (p 47):
From her poem, "Meeting the Ferret":
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