Tension and the transcendent function...

" When tension can be examined playfully with the spirit of discovery, we begin to regard our suffering as useful for self-awareness and development. Then we hold the middle way between the extremes, and don't take ourselves deadly seriously, and we can tap into the creative power of archetypes as images of powerful emotional states, rather than enact them blindly. This is the outcome of truly creative tension. If there is no discovery in our tensions, then we have missed the transcendent function and the possibility

for play."

Taken from: The Resilient Spirit, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.

Choice.... and consciousness

" Is it the capacity for choice, then, that makes us conscious of the experiences that we choose?. In every moment,we literally face myriad alternative possibilities. From these we choose, and as we choose, we recognize the course of our becoming. Thus our choosing and our recognition of choice defines our self. The primary question of self-consciousness is to choose or not to choose."

Taken from : The Self Aware Universe

Enjoy.....

Sensei Myriam