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Wisdom, like compassion, often seems to require of us that we hold multiple realities in our consciousness at once.~Richard Tarnas, Comos and Psyche

"Emotions are physical. Our bodies are the only place they can ever be found." ~Raphael Cushnir

The psychological meaning of the Last Judgment: "Sooner or later the individual has to take responsibility for all repressed contents. You do not get away with anything, in the long run.... In the short run, yes, but in the long run, no.~Edward Edinger

The wisdom of Greek tragedy cannot be overemphasized. All of them dramatize this universal confession: “I created my life; I made these choices; and, stunningly, this flood of unimagined consequences are the fruits of my choices.~James Hollis

The psyche uses depression to get our attention, to show that something is profoundly wrong. Once we understand its therapeutic value and follow its Ariadne string through our private labyrinth, then depression can even seem a friend of sorts.~James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul

The descent into the unconscious is always dangerous. It can be visualized as being devoured by the whale-dragon, as going down into a dark cave or into the castle of the evil magician. We go there to get something. As a rule, it is a valuable treasure or a precious stone.~Jung

New episode of Gatherings is out: I speak with Connie Zweig about shadow work, inner figures, aging, and the myths that live within us. What we reject often holds the key to our vitality. You can find Gatherings on all podcast platforms or directly here: bit.ly/4iFNOjf

Discipline is a bad word in our culture. People associate it with having to do what they're told. But discipline is quite a lovely word. It comes from the same root as disciple, and it means seeing yourself through the eyes of the teacher who loves you.~Marion Woodman

If you get rid of qualities you don't like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter. ~CG Jung

An excellent question to ask ourselves is, “Who would I be without this story? This belief? This identity? This fear?” This question takes courage, because we have to look beyond the safety of the familiar.~Ezra Bayda, The Authentic Life

Addictions are based on a longing for presence. Addicts somehow believe they can live in the presence of perfection: the perfect body, the perfect man or woman, the perfect nirvana. Addictions are archetypally based on the search for perfection.~Marion Woodman

All people who claim to be spiritual try to get away from the fact of the body; they want to destroy it in order to be something imaginary, but they never will be that, because the body denies them; the body says otherwise.~CG Jung

Quotes at the beginning of "Meeting the Shadow" edited by Connie Zweig. This is the best collection of essays on the subject with pieces from Campbell, Bly, von Franz, Rollo May, Hillman, Sam Keen and more.

Jung observed that a neurosis is always found in the flight from authentic suffering. Naturally, no one wants to suffer, but Jung's observation suggests that there is a distinction between authentic and inauthentic suffering.~James Hollis

Going was dying, and staying was dying. When we get to junctures like that, we had better choose the dying that enlarges rather than the one that keeps us stuck.~James Hollis, What Matters Most

It is nearly seven hundred years since Meister Eckhart exclaimed: “It is all inside, not outside, for everything is inside.” But how few people have realized as yet what he meant.~Barbara Hannah, The Animus

If you do not acknowledge your yearning, then you do not follow yourself, but go on foreign ways that others have indicated to you.~CG Jung, The Red Book