the golden shadow is jung's most underrated concept. everyone talks about the dark shadow, the parts you repress. but you also repress your greatness. the qualities you admire in others and refuse to claim in yourself. most people I work with come to work on their darkness. but in reality they're blocked by an unconscious refusal to be as brilliant as they actually are.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
actually your community IS coming to save you, people are going to show up for you, love is going to find you, strangers are going to be like angels, the world conspires for your highest good