Sunday Wisdom

This is my wandering piece of wisdom for the day, stream of consciousness. Wander with me.

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Sunday thought that life always has meaning when all things are lost.

Keep a routine going during times of plenty so that in times of scarity, purpose does not lie in your work but in life.

Writing has always given me the courage to get up each day.

For a while, it was research and analysis, now it is just writing to inform.

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Synchronicity

I think of synchronicity, I always think of the Police.

It is a Throwback Sunday. Sometimes I wonder what the entire existence of life, the universe and everything.

Life has a strange way of pulling back things that are forgotten after decades or maybe other lives.

Deja Vous is a feeling that you have been here before and there is a dream that just out of reach. It is the familiar finding energy wave.

Logos

I find the search logo (word) and therapy (healing) that Victor Frankl searched for is true

Logos means word and reason and also a word for God

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was at the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1–4).

Therapy

Therapy has many meaning is healing

👉psychotherapy is the treatment of madness or really hypnosis.

Psyche

💡Psyche is a soul but a soul of suffering (Doesn’t this sound like Cinderella story origin.

💘The origin of Psyche is she is the immortal wife of cupid. The original story of Psyche or Eros.

Psyche and Cupid-Eros, Greco-Roman mosaic from Samandağı C3rd A.D., Hatay Archeology Museum

PSYKHE (Psyche) was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros (Roman Cupid) god of love.

Despite her immense beauty, no one dared to ask her hand in marriage. Men admired her from afar, leaving her no available consorts.

Pair that with the departure of her jealous sisters, and Psyche was a lonely princess. The lack of prospects for marriage left Psyche’s father worried about her fate. So, he went to the Oracle of Delphi for advice.

The Oracle of Delphi, also known as Pythia, was the high priestess at the temple of Apollo.

When Psyche’s father came to her, the Oracle connected him to Apollo. Apollo spoke through the Oracle of Delphi, telling him that Psyche was to marry a beast that scared even the gods.

He instructed the King to dress her up in funeral clothes, take her to the tallest rock spire, and leave her to her fate.

Psyche’s father abandoned her at the tallest rock spire of his kingdom. After waiting for the beast to take her, Psyche grew fearful and decided to take her own life. She leapt from the spire to her doom. But instead of dying, she was rescued.

These instructions upset the King, but he obliged. The youngest and most beautiful was Psyche, whose admirers, neglecting the proper worship of Aphrodite (love goddess Venus), instead prayed and made offerings to her.

She was rescued by Zephyrus, an Anemoi and Greek lord of the West Wind, stopped her fall

He used his mighty wind to send her to the palace of Eros.

However, she was not aware of her surroundings. Left in darkness, Psyche waited for someone to return.

Eros saw her waiting in the darkness. Instead of unveiling his identity, he told Psyche that she should never attempt to see him or learn his name. At first, she followed his orders and had a wonderful time in the palace

He instead scratches himself with his own dart, which makes any living thing fall in love with the first thing it sees.

Consequently, he falls deeply in love with Psyche and disobeys his mother’s order.

She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl.

Aphrodite commanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to his hidden palace.

Eros hid his true identity and told Psykhe she must never gaze upon his face.

Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her.

Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite.

The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks which culminated in a journey to the Underworld. Psykhe was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.

Psykhe was depicted in ancient mosaic art as a butterfly-winged woman in the company of her husband Eros.

Sometimes a pair of Pyskhai (Psychae) were depicted — the second perhaps representing their daughter Hedone (Pleasure).

Conclusion

Greek mythology is rife with stories of jealousy and rage. Try and take care of yourself.

Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. Temptation comes in more than one form.

Be careful what you wish for.

Therapy is good for the soul but take care youself and have a routine.

Sunday piece of wisdom.

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Sources:

What is Logos in the Bible? Its Definition and Significance in History | Christianity.com

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl Plot Summary | LitCharts

Cupid and Psyche — Wikipedia

PSYCHE (Psykhe) — Greek Goddess of the Soul

Psyche — Goddess of the Soul • Facts and Information on the God Psyche — Goddess of the Soul