Help for Heroes

Help for Heroes Sign at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Unit, Headley Court in Surrey, a photo by Defence Images on Flickr.

'Why are so many young men afflicted with depression and what needs to be done?

One answer, as argued by American Holocaust survivor and author of The Uses of Enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales, Bruno Bettelheim, begins with education.

Forget much of contemporary children's literature with its social realism about broken homes, drug addiction and peer-group pressure: for Bettelheim, traditional fairytales and archetypal myths teach about overcoming adversity, dealing with uncertainty and loss and being brave enough to confront impossible odds.'

KEVIN DONNELLY 
From: The Australian, 27 July, 2013

Tears

Tear gas, a photo by Plenty's Paradox on Flickr.

'What need is there to weep over parts of life?

           The whole of it calls for tears.'

Seneca

'The Living I Ching' by Deng Ming-Dao

Snow Ghosts On Polar Peak, a photo by DCZwick on Flickr.

'The Origin' p. 9

'Emptiness is silence ... It is the quiet that falls with the snow, when the fields of labour are covered in white and trees have withdrawn into patience. That quietness is not the cessation of shouts, pounding feet, and pumping arms, but their origin. It is the source of day and the origin of spring. Silence is not the end. It is the beginning ... 
Only after silence breaks into sound does emptiness become all things.'

http://www.dengmingdao.com/