Melancholy and the awakening of one's genius are inseparable...Yet for most of us there is much sadness and little genius, little consolation of philosophy, only the melancholic stare--what to do, what to do....Here our melancholy is trying to make knowledge, trying to see through. But the truth is that the melancholy is the knowledge; the poison is the antidote. This would be the senex's most destructive insight; our senex order rests on senex madness. Our order is itself a madness.
~James Hillman~
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The poison is the antidote...
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