Working on an archetypal level Marie-Louise von Franz realised that, for her at least, the only effective and decent way to work with a client was to work on the material of her own life, both inner and outer - in other words to set her own house in order.~Chuck Schwartz
Suppose we stopped compartmentalizing death, cutting it off from life. Imagine if we regarded dying as a final stage of growth that held an unprecedented opportunity for transformation. Could we turn toward death like a master teacher and ask, “How, then, shall I live?”~Ostaseski
SUICIDE MYTH:
“People who talk about suicide, don’t actually mean to do it”
According to Dr. Larissa Paniera-Peter: People who talk about suicide may be reaching out for help or support.
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay#WokeForSuicidePrevention#AskAboutIt
Good psychotherapists are something like astronomers who spend their lives studying the stars, trying to find out why certain stellar systems behave as they do and why black holes exist. And at the end they are even more in awe of the grandeur of it all.~Francoise O'Kane
"I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains." #CarlJung
I still remember the night I played this first on radio in SA. 10 Sep 1991. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is released as a single, forever changing the musical meaning of the word "Alternative." https://t.co/eVxypChXjP
"The #shadow has been termed 'the dark side,' & indeed can embody evil contents, or what may be felt as evil. But not all repressed material is malevolent; it is also unlived life. The shadow is an integral aspect of the personality & wants to live." ~Nancy Qualls-Corbett, Ph.D.
I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest of ways, we find it impossible...to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet?~Karen Armstrong
Quite a few live with an artificial personality & get away with it-until the function of instinct is absolutely of the essence. Now, which moment is that? When someone marries or falls in love. Then you are challenged. Because then you have to be connected to deeper sources.~Jung