Zap Quotes
My friend Rob Brezsny asked me to pick out some quotations from my writings that he could feature in his newsletter. I did, but most of the ones he came up with were ones he found himself. Here’s an...
View ArticleThoughts on Jung
© 2008, Jonathan Zap An Encounter with Jung As a child my psyche was magnetized by emergent archetypal visions from the collective psyche that would appear in my own imagination, and also in many...
View ArticleTaoist Quotes
The following quotes come from Back to Beginnings, Reflections on the Tao by Huanchu Daoren, translated by Thomas Cleary. They were written around 1600 by a retired Chinese Scholar, Hong Yingming,...
View ArticleAntidote to Worry
Jonathan Zap I am presently in a phase of reading some of the classics of American self motivational literature. Although I continue to be highly critical of this material if used or presented as a...
View ArticleWARRIOR QUOTES
THE WARRIOR SAYINGS OF DON JUAN The following quote collection has been culled from the Casteneda books and represents a distillation of Don Juan’s philosophy of the warrior. Regardless of what you...
View ArticleThe Taoist Path
Introduction. © Jonathan Zap 2004 Someone once described stories as “equipment for living.” Quality fiction does fit that definition and, of course, so does the right non fiction. The modern Taoist...
View ArticleEclectic Quotes
Eclectic Quotes I have been collecting quotations for a long time. Aphoristic quotations are sometimes the most efficient and entertaining expression of universal truths. For this reason one can often...
View ArticleI Status Update, Therefore I Am
The Seductive Power of Facebook To see the latest status update and earlier ones scroll down to the bold font “STATUS UPDATES” In your face, facebook: A friend posted on Facebook: but i don’t want a...
View ArticleEgo’s Last Words
“I’m Losing.” —-Frank Sinatra’s last words, May 14, 1997 I’m really not trying to diss the grand old crooner, and really hope some goombah out there doesn’t break my legs for writing this....
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