Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles)

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When we look back at our turning points we realize dark nights of the soul are where real growth happens. Jeff Miller and I discuss why comfort keeps us trapped in small shoes, and why bearing our own lives is a rare privilege. Link in comments.

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You must kill your god. If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go. ~Joseph Campbell

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Right at the core of Jung's life and experience, easily visible although tempting enough to ignore, lies an awareness that one comes face to face with the reality of the sacred not through sanity but in the terrifying depths of madness.~Peter Kingsley, Catafalque

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We need true mystics who see with all three sets of eyes, not eccentrics, fanatics, or rebels. The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.~Richard Rohr, The Naked Now

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In feminine reality, contrasts are not so sharply seen and drawn. The masculine element sees things in bright sunlight; this is this & that is that. The feminine is like seeing in the moonlight; things kind of blend together, and they’re not so distinct from one another.~Whitmont

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Breath & emotion are linked. When you are shocked, your breathing changes. When you are full of rage or passion of any kind, your breathing changes. When you are at rest, your breathing changes. So, the goal here is to make your breathing regular, to calm the mind.~J Campbell

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You lose your grip and then you slip into the masterpiece.~Leonard Cohen

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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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The purpose of the dark phase of any cycle is that of transition between the death of the old and the birth of the new. The dark time is a time of retreat, of healing, and of dreaming the future.~ Demetra George, Mysteries of the Dark Moon

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“It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare.” ― David Whyte, The Heart Aroused

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“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.”~Federico Garcia Lorca

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Nietzsche’s phrase “One loves one’s desire, not the desired” has often proved invaluable to me in my work with love-tormented patients.~Dr. Irvin Yalom

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Don’t try to better than you are, otherwise the devil gets angry. Don’t try to be worse because God gets angry. Try to be what you are, that is acrobatics enough.~CG Jung, Visions Seminar

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@wayt0dark "Madness and Creativity".

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Our own Hell is everything we would cast off, reject. If we do not face our Hell, we continue to deposit the unwanted, the loathsome, the horrific in our neighbor and try to kill it there.~Ann Belford Ulanov

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In the end the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one.~CG Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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My favorite definition of mythology: other people's religion. My favorite definition of religion: misunderstanding of mythology. The misunderstanding consists in reading spiritual mythological symbols as though they were primarily references to historical events.~Joseph Campbell

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Jung was right. There is a collective unconscious. Joseph Campbell was right. Myths and legends do constitute the fabric of the self. The soul judges a story’s truth by how closely it comports to the narrative templates that are part of our psyche from birth.~Steven Pressfield

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“When you have faced your own demons, the demons of others will not frighten you.”~James Hollis, What Matters Most

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All men [humans] 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