The Moon can only fill up once it becomes empty. And it can only shine in all its glory once it’s gone through its darkest expression. It doesn’t berate its darkness or wish for it to be any other way (as far as we know).

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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

- Carl Jung

Awareness

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

- Carl Jung

Awareness

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

- Carl Jung

Awareness

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

- Carl Jung

Balance

"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Jung

Transformation

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration