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The political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of the nation. - James Baldwin The Fire Next Time
People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you.
You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Switch cities for a change of scenery. Chop your hair for a new look.
What freedom actually is: the power to change what you dislike about yourself.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts
true freedom begins when we realize what the mind is not. Beneath the mind’s constant chatter and noise lies a profound stillness—a space untouched by its turbulence.
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
Jung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?
James Hollis • Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
Jung, especially, developed a psychotherapy that was oriented toward soul. Unlike Freud, who viewed the unconscious as a boiling cauldron of evil impulses, Jung uncovered our lost creative impulses lying there, as well as the lost gods or mythological images that he called archetypes.
Steven Wolf • Romancing the Shadow
“And maybe I needed the break. Maybe after years of pressure and burnout and noise, I earned a little numbness. But no one warns you how easy it is to slip from rest into rot.”
With his seminars on Kundalini Yoga in 1932, Jung commenced a comparative study of esoteric practices, focusing on the spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, Patanjali’s Yoga sutras, Buddhist meditational practices, and medieval alchemy, which he presented in an extensive series of lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).243
... See moreC. G. Jung • The Red Book
When the going gets tough, creative problem solvers create an easier, simpler problem that they can solve. They resolve that easier issue thoroughly and then study that simple scenario with laser focus. Those insights often point the way to a resolution of the original difficult problem.
Michael Starbird • The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that you can begin to see a new pattern. Solve the larger problem and the smaller one will get solved along the way.