Heraclitus
circa 5th Century BC
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way."
"Life must be lived as play."
"Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly."
"The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is."
"Beware of the other’s dream, because if you are caught in the other’s dream you're screwed."
Iain McGilchrist
born 1953
"Meaning emerges from engagement with the world, not from abstract contemplation of it."
Frederick Aardema Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry at University of Montreal