Aslan Institute

02/25/2026

02/24/2026

“Compliance causes a shocking realisation that must be registered by all women. That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves. It is a tormenting tension and it must be borne, but the choice is clear.”

-Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Art: Frida Kahlo

02/22/2026

From A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

02/22/2026

I walked into the ocean.
Not to drown but to be held by something reluctant to let go.
~Leila Chatti

02/22/2026

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller

Anatoly A. Sergienko - The Northern Coast of Songs, 1975-1976.

02/22/2026

“Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives, or we surrender to something greater than ourselves. The water of our deepest troubles is also the water of our own solution. In surrender, we descend down to the bottom of it and back to the beginning of it; down into what is divided in order to get back to the wholeness before the split. Healing, health, wealth, wholeness: all hail from the same roots. To heal is to make whole again; wholeness is what all healing seeks and what alone can truly unify our spirit."
- Michael Meade, "The Genius Myth"

02/21/2026

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.
The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
~Cynthia Occelli