Human Condition
A bird of prey is clinging to my inner being. Its claws have ripped into my heart. Its beak has driven itself into my chest and the beating of its wings has darkened my sanity.
(Edvard Munch)
Why hast thou stolen
Into thyself, thyself?
A sick man now,
Sick of the serpent’s poison;
A captive now
Who drew the hardest lot:
Bent double
Working in thine own pit,
Encaved within thyself,
Heavy-handed.
Stiff,
A corpse-
Filled with a hundred burdens,
Loaded to death with thyself,
A knower!
…
You sought the heaviest burden
And found yourself.
(Friedrich Nietzche)
The only like mind I had left has left and I don’t feel anything and I am sad and proud and sad to be proud but sad.
(Francesca Woodman)
My happiness and unhappiness are both unbearable; I am full of inarticulate voices and darknesses; I wallow, all blood and tears, in this warm trough of my flesh.
(Nikos Kazantzakis)
Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked!
(Nikos Kazantzakis)
…The true man is not a sheep, a watchdog, a wolf, a shepherd. He is a king and carries his kingdom with him and moves on, and knows where he is going; he reaches the edge of the abyss, throws away his paper crown, strips off his kingdom and like a diver, naked, joins his hands and plunges head-first into chaos and vanishes.
(Nikos Kazantzakis)
Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return.
(Book of Job)
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes-in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
(Soren Kierkegaard)
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against…Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.
(C.G. Jung)
I had to photograph the unknown of myself, the fear of my being, in all the potentialities of its anonymous lostness, in the hope of facing it and thereby being emptied of it.
(Joel-Peter Witkin)
Because in his own suffering the creative man experiences the profound wounds of his collectivity and his time, he carries deep within him a regenerative force capable of bringing forth a cure not only for himself but also for the community.
(Erich Neumann)
(Edvard Munch)
Why hast thou stolen
Into thyself, thyself?
A sick man now,
Sick of the serpent’s poison;
A captive now
Who drew the hardest lot:
Bent double
Working in thine own pit,
Encaved within thyself,
Heavy-handed.
Stiff,
A corpse-
Filled with a hundred burdens,
Loaded to death with thyself,
A knower!
…
You sought the heaviest burden
And found yourself.
(Friedrich Nietzche)
The only like mind I had left has left and I don’t feel anything and I am sad and proud and sad to be proud but sad.
(Francesca Woodman)
My happiness and unhappiness are both unbearable; I am full of inarticulate voices and darknesses; I wallow, all blood and tears, in this warm trough of my flesh.
(Nikos Kazantzakis)
Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked!
(Nikos Kazantzakis)
…The true man is not a sheep, a watchdog, a wolf, a shepherd. He is a king and carries his kingdom with him and moves on, and knows where he is going; he reaches the edge of the abyss, throws away his paper crown, strips off his kingdom and like a diver, naked, joins his hands and plunges head-first into chaos and vanishes.
(Nikos Kazantzakis)
Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return.
(Book of Job)
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes-in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
(Soren Kierkegaard)
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against…Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.
(C.G. Jung)
I had to photograph the unknown of myself, the fear of my being, in all the potentialities of its anonymous lostness, in the hope of facing it and thereby being emptied of it.
(Joel-Peter Witkin)
Because in his own suffering the creative man experiences the profound wounds of his collectivity and his time, he carries deep within him a regenerative force capable of bringing forth a cure not only for himself but also for the community.
(Erich Neumann)