We're afraid of loss, and yet it's through what we lose that we're able to find what nothing can take away from us.
- #PeterKingsley
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The #unconscious is the key to itself. - #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
The #unconscious is the key to itself.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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The terrible secret which has been forgotten is that humanity, itself, is an #archetype — and forget the danger of identifying with being a human being.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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Most people paint their wall in different colours and then imagine they’re free. But what’s extraordinary is that the crucial thing we need for breaking free is already inside us: our longing...”
- #PeterKingsley, 'In the Dark Places of Wisdom'
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#PETERKINGSLEY ON LONGING
"You can see it with people who love the divine, or God — who miss what doesn’t even exist for anyone else. With people who want this or that, there’s always the risk that their wanting will be fulfilled.
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We felt we knew what we were playing with. And, as a result, western civilization may soon be nothing but an experiment that failed.”
- #PeterKingsley, 'Reality'
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“Perhaps the simplest way of describing the situation would be to say that, two and a half thousand years ago in the West, we were given a gift — and in our childishness we threw away the instructions for how to use it.
- #PeterKingsley, 'Reality'
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Every way leads you to hell and there’s no way out, nothing left for you to do. Nothing can possibly satisfy you anymore. Then, if you’re ready, you’ll start to discover inside yourself what you always longed for but were never able to find."
- #PeterKingsley, ‘The Dark Places of Wisdom’
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#PETERKINGSLEY ON OUR REAL, TRUE LUCK
"If you’re lucky, at some point in your life you’ll come to a complete dead end.
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Real #mysticism is to abandon any possible identification and, from moment to moment, surrender everything—which is why scepticism is the most mystical attitude of all.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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The #unconscious is the problem and the unconscious, if we consciously watch and humbly wait as only a real prophet knows how to, is its own solution.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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It’s always nice to talk knowledgeably about eruptions of the unconscious when they are sweet, or happened a few centuries ago, or fit into a preconceived design. But the #unconscious itself always tricks us by coming up in the way our conscious mind least expects.
- #PeterKingsley
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But it also symbolizes the mysterious lineage which stretches from the founders of Western civilization, through #Hermetic and then #Sufi tradition, into the present time."
- #PeterKingsley
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#PETERKINGSLEY ON WHAT HOLDS THE WORLD TOGETHER
"The golden chain is an ancient symbol of the power that holds the universe together and connects this world of time to the world of eternity.
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The whole point and purpose of any differentiation is to prepare the ground for the union.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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The only light which is going to be of any genuine use or value to us is the light we manage to bring, like a new sun, out from the darkness inside ourselves.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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The numinous is, very simply, the experience of the impossible in our lives. And that raw impossibility somehow never fits too well into human systems.
At the same time, there is no limit to human resourcefulness in escaping the impossible.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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To be a true individual by becoming aware of the archetypal forces that, from moment to moment, are shaping even our most intimate and seductive thoughts: this is the coldest, loneliest thing for anyone to do.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque'
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The path towards becoming a true individual involves suffering and being tortured to a degree which is unimaginable, being ground into nothing, having any and every illusion of ever being a genuine individual stripped away.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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Strangely enough, ambiguity itself is not ambiguous at all. On the contrary, it’s perfectly clear; an endless invitation into the open landscape of reality.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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Magritte, 'Black Sun'
To be real about the sacred is to see not just what inside us is not sacred–but what it is inside us that’s against the sacred.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’
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The terrible secret which has been forgotten is that humanity, itself, is an archetype— and forget the danger of identifying with being a human being.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘Catafalque’
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We are happy to recognize the archetypal reality of anything at all, except ourselves.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘Catafalque’
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There is nothing quite as capable of changing a human being, as the experience of utter changelessness.
- #PeterKingsley
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Into the humdrum and ordinary they bring something extraordinary, a magic: not the fabricated type of magic that we invent to try and escape from the tedium of existence but a totally different kind, far more mysterious and infinitely more real."
- #PeterKingsley, 'REALITY'
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#PETERKINGSLEY ON THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
"Most of us think the greatest possible achievement is to come up with everything ourselves, to invent and be creative, put our stamp on the world.
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And that was very quickly forgotten. The original purpose of logic was to prove quite carefully, very demonstrably, very thoroughly, that this physical world is an illusion."
- #PeterKingsley
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#PETERKINGSLEY ON THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF LOGIC
"Logic originally had a very specific purpose - that it was divine in origin - and the point, the function of #logic, was to draw us back to the divine world. The original purpose of logic was to prove the oneness of everything.
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Image: Bust of Parmenides discovered at Velia
Moses brought his laws down from Mount Sinai; #Parmenides brought his back from the depths of hell.
- #PeterKingsley, ‘In the Dark Places of Wisdom,’ p. 205
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