The Inner Valley

The five colors blind the eye. The five tones deafen the ear. The five flavors stale the palate. The chase for preys deranges the mind, too much treasure impedes one’s growth. The Master acts on what he feels not what he sees, so allows things to come and go. ******* ✍   Lao Tzu . Tao Te Ching ~ Verse 12. ◙ Artwork: Tsuchiya Koitsu

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.” ✍ Milan Kundera (Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1 April 1929). ◙ Jean-Léon Gérôme

“Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind." ******* ✍ Joseph Campbell (White Plains, New York, 26 March 1904 ~ Honolulu, Hawaii, 30 October 1987). ◙ Artw ork: Evelyn de Morgan *******  “El sueño es el mito personalizado, el mito es el sueño despersonalizado; tanto el mito como el sueño son simbólicos en el  mismo modo general de la dinámica de la psique. Pero en el sueño las formas son distorsionadas por las dificultades peculiares del que sueña, mientras que en el mito los problemas y las soluciones representadas son directamente válidas para toda la humanidad." *******   ✍ Joseph Campbell   ◙ Artwork: Albert Aublet