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Thrilled to see my novel included in this collection of recommended books!
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Carl Jung said that so much unnecessary suffering comes into the world because people will not accept the “legitimate suffering” that comes from being human. In fact, he said neurotic behavior is usually the result of refusing that legitimate suffering.~Richard Rohr
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From the book I'm reading at the moment [Reflections on the Life and Dreams of CG Jung, Aniela Jaffe]
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Carl Jung said that so much unnecessary suffering comes into the world because people will not accept the “legitimate suffering” that comes from being human. In fact, he said neurotic behavior is usually the result of refusing that legitimate suffering.~Richard Rohr
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When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis
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Carl Jung said that so much unnecessary suffering comes into the world because people will not accept the “legitimate suffering” that comes from being human. In fact, he said neurotic behavior is usually the result of refusing that legitimate suffering.~Richard Rohr
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This book is soooooooooo powerful. I have recommended Peter Levine, Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk's books on trauma [all great] and this one explores Jung's approach to the subject. It's required reading for all those interested in Jung's work.
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When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis, What Matters Most
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One of the "must-read" Jung works. Be prepared to be challenged.
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Marie -Louise von Franz was a genius. Read her books.
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Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness. For it is in the healing of our psychic wounds that we come to know ourselves.~Robert A. Johnson
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Depression is not necessarily pathological. It often foreshadows a renewal of the personality or a burst of creative activity. There are moments in human life when a new page is turned. ~CG Jung
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Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. ~Joseph Campbell
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We quite forget that we can be as deplorably overcome by a virtue as by a vice. There is a sort of frenzied, orgiastic virtuousness which is just as infamous as a vice and leads to just as much injustice and violence. ~CG Jung
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Carl Jung said that so much unnecessary suffering comes into the world because people will not accept the “legitimate suffering” that comes from being human. In fact, he said neurotic behavior is usually the result of refusing that legitimate suffering.~Richard Rohr
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Depression is not necessarily pathological. It often foreshadows a renewal of the personality or a burst of creative activity. There are moments in human life when a new page is turned. ~CG Jung, CW 16
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Psychologically you develop in a spiral, you always come over the same point where you have been before, but it is never exactly the same, it is either above or below. ~CG Jung, Seminar on Dream Analysis
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.~Richard Rohr
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Nietzsche once said that before the path can be followed, one must first have found the lantern. And the lantern can only be found after a conscientious submission of ego sovereignty and a purgatory of fear and trembling.~James Hollis, Living Between Worlds
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Interview with Marie-Louise von Franz, Rolling Stone Magazine.
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All men are liars, certainly. I just let them sit in that chair and lie till they get tired of lying. Then they begin to tell the truth.~CG Jung
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There’s a rule, either you do spiritual practices, or the unconscious will force you to act them out in pseudo-ritual ways. I really believe that a lot of the addictions and compulsive behaviors are unconscious rituals.~ Robert Moore
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It has become clear to me that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency & bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.~James Hollis
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Jung once told me that he made it a great point to see if his patients had a sense of humor. People who have no sense of humor are very difficult to treat and if they are psychotic they are practically incurable. ~Marie-Louise von Franz
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When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis, What Matters Most
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Dr. Jung once told me that any man who comes into your consulting room will either be 21 or 45 years of age no matter his chronological age because his problems will be that he can't get into life or can't get out of life. Those are the only 2 problems a man ever has.~RA Johnson
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If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.~Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Modern people...have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche, Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.~CG Jung
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If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.~CG Jung
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You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus
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To realize that boredom does not come from the object of our attention but rather from the quality of our attention is truly a transforming insight. Fritz Perls said, “Boredom is lack of attention.” Understanding this reality brings profound changes in our lives.~Joseph Goldstein
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Jung said that so much unnecessary suffering comes into the world because people will not accept the “legitimate suffering” that comes from being human. In fact, he said neurotic behavior is usually the result of refusing that legitimate suffering!~Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
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Jung believes that alcoholism and drug addiction, for instance, have become such huge problems because we look in vain to drugs to deliver a transcendence that normal life can no longer provide.~David Tacey
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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
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I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering…. but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are. ~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.— Kamand Kojouri
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There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To be whole instead of perfect is perhaps Jung's greatest idea.~ Barbara Hannah
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Synchronicity is Jung’s coinage for what we can call ‘meaningful coincidence’, when the inner & outer worlds reflect each other with such accuracy and obvious meaning that to resort to mere coincidence as an explanation is useless.~Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
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If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.~CG Jung
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Stop trying. Stop forcing reality. Learn the mystery of surrender and trust, and then it will be done unto you, through you, with you, in you and very often, in spite of you.~Richard Rohr, Things Hidden
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Hell is the concretization of your life experiences, a place where you're stuck, the wasteland. In hell, you are so bound to yourself that grace cannot enter. ~Joseph Campbell
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If you feel safe and loved, your brain becomes specialized in exploration, play, and cooperation; if you are frightened and unwanted, it specializes in managing feelings of fear and abandonment.~Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
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As Jung told Alan Watts, he was glad he wasn’t a Jungian. “I’m Jung.” I do not want anyone to be a Jungian.... I want people above all to be themselves.... Should I be found one day only to have created another “ism” then I will have failed in all I tried to do.~L van der Post
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You know who said it best? Leonard Cohen. He meditated all those years often for 12 hours at a time. In an interview, he said his storyline just wore itself out. He got so bored with his dramatic storyline. He said: "The less there was of me, the happier I got."~Pema Chödrön
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One of the most destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power. If someone has a creative gift & doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses & psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities~vonFranz
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There’s a rule, either you do spiritual practices, or the unconscious will force you to act them out in pseudo-ritual ways. I really believe that a lot of the addictions and compulsive behaviors are unconscious rituals.~
Robert Moore
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If you want to change the world, change the metaphor. Change the story.~Joseph Campbell
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ~ Hermann Hesse, Demian
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Jung's question haunts us all -what task is this person avoiding? In most cases, we are avoiding responsibility for our lives. ~James Hollis
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Nietzsche had lost the ground under his feet because he possessed nothing more than the inner world of his thoughts—which incidentally possessed him more than he it. He was uprooted and hovered above the earth, and therefore he succumbed to exaggeration and irreality.~CG Jung
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🧵Let me introduce myself formally. I have been posting here for over 10 years and only recently added my photo and my name to the account. The reason is that I was initially posting to Twitter so that I could remind myself of the ideas that I read about and sometimes forget. 1/7
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Jung said that it is exactly where you feel most frightened and most in pain that your greatest opportunity lies for personal growth.~Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work
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The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard observed that the most common form of despair is that of not knowing who we really are, adding that an even deeper form of despair stems from choosing to be other than oneself.~Howard Sasportas
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Several days ago, I told you all to read Donald Kalsched's 1st book & now I am recommending this one. Published 20 years after 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢, Kalsched expands on the first book and incorporates Iain McGilchrist's work as well. Highly recommended!
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Jung was not concerned with repairing broken lives to fit into an insane social order, but had to reverse the directions of psychiatry and argue that society was mad and, as such, individual madness is to be expected as a product of a more general madness.~David Tacey
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.~Rumi
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Alan Watts says that the loss of paradoxical thinking is the great blindness of our civilization, which is what many of us believe happened when we repressed the feminine side of our lives as the inferior side.~Richard Rohr
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The book that reminds me of the importance of this quote is "Addiction to Perfection" by Marion Woodman.
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Jung claimed that the use of reason to the exclusion of myth and fantasy makes us sick, because it alienates us from the sources of healing, which are only ever expressed in symbolic language.~David Tacey
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Shamanistic cultures view illness and trauma as a problem for the entire community, not just for the individual or individuals who manifest the symptoms.~Peter A. Levine, Waking the Tiger
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One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.
—C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
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When a woman is aware of her problem, the healing comes spontaneously and from the depths of her nature. Solitude is the feminine equivalent of masculine heroic action.~Robert A. Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden
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When I met Jung, he told me to be true to myself, and true to my type. And that is what I wish for you. If you go against your typological makeup, you go against your grain, and you will get splinters. Go with it, and your life will have ease, flow, and purpose.~Robert A Johnson
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When one tries desperately to be good, wonderful, perfect, then all the more the shadow develops a will to be black, evil and destructive.~CG Jung, Notes on the Seminar Given in 1930-1934
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Carl Jung once said there are three key ingredients in psychotherapy (which means, in Greek, “attending to the Soul”): insight, courage, and enduring action."~Elizabeth Spring
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A Zen master once explained that enlightenment happens in small moments, many times. These moments tend to come when we stop fighting reality, when we relax and open. This state of opening often comes in the midst of what we think of as failure &crushing disappointment.~T Cochran
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The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personally made the wrong move.~Pema Chodron
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A great poem of the Zen tradition ends with this description of the awakened state: To be without anxiety about imperfection.~ Adyashanti
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A genius never grows out of a perfectly balanced family, there must have been fools; a fool is always the first sign of the genius and the last, as foolishness and wisdom are sisters.~CG Jung, Visions Seminar
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The implications of synchronicity will make you dizzy if you really reflect on them. They suggest that the psyche and the outer universe are not as unrelated as conventional psychology would have us believe. They mirror each other and are ultimately inseparable.~Steven Forrest
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Psychologically you develop in a spiral, you always come over the same point where you have been before, but it is never exactly the same, it is either above or below. ~CG Jung, Seminar on Dream Analysis
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All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable & will always be. If you really want to help this world, you will have to teach how to live in it. No one can do that who has not learned how to live in joyful sorrow & sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.~Joseph Campbell
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All mystics are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well! Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.~ Anthony de Mello
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A traumatized person’s nervous system is not damaged; it is frozen in a kind of suspended animation.~Peter A. Levine,Waking the Tiger
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The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.~Helen Luke
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I very much agree with Carl Jung, who said that transformation at the deeper levels happens in the presence of images much more than through concepts.~Richard Rohr, Things Hidden
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I’m forever mindful of Jung’s oft-quoted admonition: “Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories, but your creative individuality alone must decide."~Hadley Fitzgerald
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