Dostoyevsky meets Jung. What happens when we confront the shadow instead of outrunning it?.From Crime and Punishment to The Idiot, this video explores how literature can illuminate where we are broken.🎥 Watch here→

In this new Substack post, I revisit Sophocles’ Antigone through the lens of Jung and the Axial Age. A story of law vs. love, order vs. soul and the feminine principle we’re still trying to recall.

From Jung I took courage to tell my patients not to put their faith in abstract concepts. Put your faith in your own unconscious, your own dreams. ~ Robert A. Johnson.

The beginning of wisdom occurs the day we recognize the obvious—that the only person present in every scene of our still-unfolding psychodramas is ourselves. – James Hollis, Living Between Worlds.

"Traumatized individuals must accomplish a similar grief work, accepting the fact that there may be no answer to the question “Why?” if they hope not to remain stuck in rumination." ~Ursula Wirtz, Trauma and Beyond.

"Grief ripens us, pulls up from the depths of our souls what is most authentic in our beings. In truth, without some familiarity with sorrow, we do not mature as men and women."~Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow.

Good definition of masculine and feminine--two loaded words.

The ability to control impulse is the base of will & character. By the same token, the root of altruism lies in empathy, ability to read emotions in others. If there are any 2 moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint & compassion~D Goleman.

Yearning for others’ accomplishments is a way of avoiding the hard work of developing one’s own potential. What one desires in others is an unlived aspect in oneself that needs attending.~Rose-Emily Rothenberg, The Jewel in the Wound.

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.

The ancients called internal longing for wholeness “fate” or “destiny,” the “inner voice” or the “call of the gods.” It has an inevitability, authority & finality to it and was at the heart of almost all mythology. Almost all heroes heard an inner voice that spoke to them.~R Rohr.

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.