From a synchronistic perspective, external events may actually be extensions of internal, motivating factors which, in turn, are linked to cosmic powers (archetypes) that are inherently intelligent and intentional.
Jung repeatedly observed that events in the outer world seemed to coincide meaningfully with inner psychic states. They were not necessarily causally related, but symbolically so; inner and outer events were isomorphic in that they had the same or similar quality. Jung concluded that the workings of archetypes could be discerned not only in subjective phenomena such as dreams and myths, but in objective phenomena as well. He was intrigued with the possibility that psyche merged with outer reality to form a unitary reality transcending the antithesis of subject and object.
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
—Keith Richards (via eltaeb)
(via re-evol-ution)
There is a reality but we will never directly know it. All stress that we experience mentally constructed. We can never really know what’s behind the experience; all we can know is the experience itself (sights, sounds, thoughts, interpretations).
However things seem to you in any given moment is not how the world is. It’s how your mind is creating it. Every last detail of our stress is mind manufactured. Keeping and developing that perspective makes us much less reactive and much more able to deal with it.
—Marcello Spinella (via sublimetranscendence)
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
—Chögyam Trungpa (via elige)
(Source: elige, via from-the-water)
You must be aware of the contents of your own reasoning mind. Find the ambiguities. Regardless of the nature of your beliefs they are indeed made of flesh and material. The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. If you think the world is evil, you will meet with events that seem evil. There are no accidents in cosmic terms, or in terms of the world as you know it. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do. When you realize this you can even feel their growing.
—Seth (via nirvikalpa)
(Source: vamamarg, via nirvikalpa-deactivated20130416)
Mental images, accompanied by strong emotion, are blueprints therefore upon which a corresponding physical object, or condition or event, will in your terms appear.
—Seth (via nirvikalpa)
(Source: thebookofvance, via nirvikalpa-deactivated20130416)
