Only stubborn, collective optimism, with the sustained energy and effort that follow in its wake, creates the conditions for eventual success. As science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke put it, "I have great faith in optimism as a philosophy, if only because it offers us the opportunity of self-fulfilling prophecy."



I believe with Jung that each of us is “modern man in search of a soul.”

 — James Hillman

A goal without a timeline is just a dream.

 “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” 

= J.K. Rowling 

Spontaneity comes from a place of abundance-- inner freedom and flexible expression of one's desires, motivations, and talents-- whereas impulsivity comes from a place of deprivation-- lack of preparation, lack of self-insight, and lack of self-regulation.

“We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, not fixated, and unbiased.” ~ Pema Chödron

 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

“The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.”