He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy.
But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternities sunrise.
William Blake (1757-1827) English poet
“I love this poem because, for me, if I hold onto things too long like a job, an idea, or relationship with my kids or loved ones, even though it’s a joy, sometimes I can stifle it. Things need to have their own freedom and if I can somehow let them go, kissing the joys that fly, and let them be, then, I think, I’m more in synch with the way things should be”
Carl Greer, Ph.D., Psy.D., clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst
and author of Change Your Story, Change Your Life:
Using Shamanic and Jungian Tools to Achieve
Personal Transformation
