Nightingale in the Mosque

The”word singing” expresses how I think of my work as a writer, a sculptor, and a human being. I want to sing out what comes through me into the world. So I love this comment Marie Louise von Franz made in her commentary on the fairy tale The Nightingale Gisar.

“ . . unless the nightingale sings in the mosque, prayer is of no use." --Marie Louise von Franz

Individuation in Fairy Tales. Page 179

And, I might add after mosque, the temple, the church, the heart, the Self...

As I sit nursing a cold, staring out at the green wood, I'll muse on that line like a melody.


Be well--and listen for the nightingale!