"You can't revise a blank page."

-- Leonard Wolf

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“Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too, believed that the psyche retained archaic vestiges, remnants of our earlier mental world. But for Freud these were a burden we were forced to repress. Jung instead would see them as a reservoir of vital energy, a source of meaning and power from which, through the over-development of our rational minds, modern mankind has become divorced.”
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.”
“Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.”
“The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.”
“People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.”

Source : Henry Mackenzie (1820). “The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale”, p.18
“Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.”

Source : Marq de Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.”
“[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it...”

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