Actress

Withstanding the tension between opposites
until we know it is “enough” releases us from
the swing between one extreme and the other.
~Helen Luke~

Since the stars have fallen…

Since the stars have fallen from heaven and our highest symbols have pales, a secret life holds sway in the unconscious.  That is why we have psychology today, and why we speak of the unconscious. All this would be quite superfluous in an age or culture that possessed symbols. Symbols are spirit from above, and under those conditions the spirit is above too.  Therefore it would be a foolish and senseless undertaking for such people to wish to experience or investigate an unconscious that contains nothing but silent, undisturbed sway of nature.  Our unconscious, on the other hand, hides living water, spirit that has become nature, and that is why it is disturbed.  Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicians, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were.  But “the heart glows,” and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being.

~from The Nature and Activity of the Psyche, by C.G. Jung

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Danse…

Catherine Verneuil, 1963

Liane Dayde dans la rotonde de l’Opera, Paris, 1950

Cours d’adage a l’Opera, Paris, 1950

All image via Atelier Robert Doisneau

Rayographs…

Man Ray photography

Clocks…

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~ Polish Proverb

Clocks slay time…time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~ ~William Faulkner

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
~John Archibald

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
~unknown

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz