7 Quotes by Jason Kirkey

There is a saying that 'the psychotic drowns in the waters that the mystic swims in.' The health and structural integrity of the ego means the difference between spiritual emergence, the unfolding of a transpersonal identity; and a spiritual emergency a crisis brought on by the same unfolding, during which the foundations of sanity can be shaken.

Tradition can be double edged. It can provide a map for us, guiding us along routes that others have taken, and give us heart in difficult times. It can also condition us to experience reality in a very narrow range, fogging over the freshness of the world with a dullness of expectations and belief.

Our identity is intimately tied to the stories we tell about ourselves and the world, both consciously and unconsciously.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes.

There is a saying that ‘the psychotic drowns in the waters that the mystic swims in.’ The health and structural integrity of the ego means the difference between spiritual emergence, the unfolding of a transpersonal identity; and a spiritual emergency a crisis brought on by the same unfolding, during which the foundations of sanity can be shaken.

To be native to a place means that our minds are rooted there, derive their nourishment from the familiarity of the landscape and from the stories that are woven into it. Mind is deeply involved with the land.

The reality of industrialism... is that for each boon it grants to our lives it offers a corresponding note of destruction. One person’s bar of chocolate is another person’s slave labor; one city, the destruction of a watershed. Everything comes at a cost.