When the modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - #Plato, 'The Republic' IV, 424c

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation. – #AldousHuxley

Two types of society, folks– and since the dawn of recorded history (which is also the dawn of hierarchies) ...

What #counselling and #therapy actually looks like:

Whatever gifts #Saturn gives, no other star can take away. - #SerapionofAlexandria, ‘Paronomasiai’

Here too I am now going, an exile from the gods and a wanderer placing my trust in mad strife. - #Empedocles

Protect your #attention against whatever wants to take it, but without animosity. The force of the Work is positive. It develops in us in the direction for, never against.” - #HenrietteLannes, “This Fundamental Quest.”

As this experience unfolds, our feelings can be touched by that quality of life. ... What is asked of us is to maintain our #attention in the sense of a deeper #relaxation.

#HENRIETTELANNES ON RELAXATION AND ATTENTION “To relax is not a technical activity in which I learn to let go of tensions in my muscles, my nerves. True #relaxation is to free ourselves from everything that possesses us in order to be able to turn with #attention toward our inner lives.

I am one with my Source insofar as I, too, act as a source by making all I have received flow again. - #RaimonPanikkar

This is how I am your friend: I love your happiness, your freedom, your adventure, in a word– and I would like to be, for you, a companion you can be sure of, always.” - #AlbertCamus (to #RenéChar, 1957)

CAMUS ON AGING AND FRIENDSHIP "The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with beings who liberate you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel.

What #counselling and #therapy actually look like:

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

#CSLEWIS ON THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT "Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them.

#JOHNPENTLAND ON WHAT WILL HELP THE WORK "Lectures and meetings will not help if the wish to open our minds and to study and to make our living an exercise is not present. Books will not help much until we are free enough to do some real thinking for ourselves.

an inner aspiration to know, to feel, to be that, to enter into contact with the greater Reality beyond and pervading the universe which inhabits also our own being." - Sri #Aurobindo, 'The Life Divine'

AUROBINDO ON SPIRITUALITY " #Spirituality is, in its essence, an awakening to the inner reality of our being, to a spirit, self, soul which is other than our mind, life, and body;

Everything indicates that humanity is going downhill, despite its successes or rather because of them. - #EmilCioran

And all the world's a stage ...

Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it. - #SalvadorDali

The path isn't a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths. – #BarryHGillespie

What #therapy and #counselling actually looks like (except for the couch):

The power of the mind should be exalted for it is both beautiful and terrifying. Participation is the oldest methodology that has ever existed." - #HenrykSkolimowski, 'The Participatory Mind'

#HENRYKSKOLIMOWSKI ON OUR PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE "We do not live in a senseless, stupid, selfish universe, but in a connected and participatory one. We have the power in our mind to make the universe stupid and disconnected. But the mind was not given to us for this purpose.

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place. - #RufusJones

#NICEPHORUSTHESOLITARY ON ATTENTION "Attention is the beginning of contemplation, or rather its necessary condition: for, through #attention, God comes close and reveals Himself to the mind.

#WILLIAMJAMES ON THE TRUE MEANING OF SUCCESS "I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets,