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A potential pitfall with the Jungian doctrine of the shadow is the temptation to project evil, not onto some external entity such as the devil, but rather onto “a relatively autonomous ‘splinter personality’”16 residing deep within us—namely, the compensatory “shadow,” “stranger,” or “other.” Thus, instead of saying “The devil made me do it,” one
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When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.
Programmable attention
In trying to keep everyone happy I had sacrificed what mattered most.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkenings and despairings that the soul requires to deepen into life.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
It’s easy to say something should do everything well because saying something is easy doesn’t involve any work, or require any tradeoffs. But building products is all about tradeoffs.
Jason Fried • Directional decisions
The lumen naturae is an image of light at the core of ancient alchemical ideas. One of the aims of alchemy was to beget this light hidden in nature, a light very different from the Western association of light as separate from darkness. In Alchemical Studies, Jung writes about the light of nature (lumen naturae), which he calls "the light of
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