https://flic.kr/p/82VYrU
'Picasso
would wake late, about 10am, shrouded in pessimism. "Pablo would
complain life was unbearable, why should he even get up, there was no
purpose to anything," Gilot relates. "I would convince him things were
not so bad after all, today he would paint something marvellous. Friends
would call in, Pablo would win some argument, recharge his batteries,
become king again. Finally around 1pm he'd start work in his studio, in a
good mood." '
http://www.francoisegilot.com/frames.html
Orange moon has risen, a photo by slworking2 on Flickr.
'Some of the
pure gold of our personality is relegated to the shadow because it can
find no place in that great levelling process that is culture.'
'Curiously,
people resist the noble aspect of their shadow more strenuously than
they hide the dark sides. To draw the skeletons out of the closet is
relatively easy, but to own the gold in the shadow is terrifying. It is
more disrupting to find that you have a profound nobility of character
than to find out you are a bum. Of course you are both; but one does not
discover these two elements at the same time. The gold is related to
our higher calling, and this can be hard to accept at certain stages of
life, and some people may suffer a severe shock or illness before they
learn how to let the gold out.'
https://flic.kr/p/fZLR5e
'I derived
great benefit from talking with him, as we often do when the pain and
its terms are shared and there can be no more nonsense about Getting a
Grip on Yourself. We gave each other permission to be ill, a necessary
precondition of being cured. I'm convinced that stoicism is never the
answer to anything, being nothing more than a cruel, callous
encouragement to people to devour each other, a powerful ally of sadists
and tyrants keen to get people to endure things which should be firmly
refused as unendurabale. Courage, indeed! Desensitisation and
bully-training, rather.'
p. 14
