Della Celeste Fisonomia (1616) Giovanni Battista Della Porta

Gustave Dorés’ beatific vision, from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.

The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo

Art by Bill Crisafi

Karl Stauffer Bern - Skull study, 1880-81.

“Nemesis — the goddess of measure. All those who have overstepped the limit will be pitilessly destroyed.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951

Hand and a half sword, Germany, circa 1530

from The State Art Collection Dresden

Liberation from self-sabotage requires an understanding of how we co-create the life we experience. We are not innocent victims suffering at the cruel hands of fate. Rather, we participate in the circumstances of our lives by giving consent, consciously or unconsciously, to most of the pleasure or the pain we experience. Self-responsibility enables us to see that our reactions to the inevitable stresses and challenges of life are a result of choices that we are making. It requires the courage to acknowledge that we may have an emotional investment in maintaining our negative emotions and beliefs.

Freedom From Self-Sabotage

Peter Michaelson

The Alnwick Poison Garden is pretty much what you’d think it is: a garden full of plants that can kill you (among many other things). Some of the plants are so dangerous that they have to be kept behind bars. [x]

By Moonlight in Neldoreth Forest - Ted Nasmith