Archetypal Energies

We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we once deeply loved we can never lose,

for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

You surrender to love;

you do not accomplish love by willpower.

Richard Rohr

1. The Lady

2. The Femme Fatale

3. The Princess

4. The Bohemian

5. The Charming Nurturer

To improve is to change;

to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

The femme fatale expresses woman's ancient

and eternal control of the sexual realm.

The specter of the femme fatale stalks

all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia

Addiction & Recovery

When a person can't find a deep sense of

meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Victor Frankl

 

Pleasures can become punishments

when taken beyond a certain point.

Marcus Aurelius

 

I learned through my body and soul that it was

necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to

strive for property and experience nausea and

the depths of despair in order to learn not to

resist them, in order to learn to love the world,

and no longer compare it with some kind of

desired imaginary vision of perfection,

but to leave it as it is, to love it and

be glad to belong to it.

Hermann Hesse

I often think of alcohol as a genie in a bottle.

It promises everything but eventually

imprisons you in the bottle itself.

Erica Jong

Complete abstinence is easier

than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine