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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. JESUS
Connie Zweig • Meeting the Shadow
The mirror’s primary religious connection was to Ra—the most powerful deity, the omnipresent African sun—and the mirror was his symbol brought to earth. In Egyptian sculpture and painting there is always a round sun-mirror atop Ra’s falcon head. Even the mirror’s elliptical shape imitated the rising or setting sun, stretched sideways as it
... See moreMark Pendergrast • Mirror, Mirror: A History Of The Human Love Affair With Reflection
Therefore it cannot be a question of cause and effect, but of a falling together in time, a kind of simultaneity. Because of this quality of simultaneity, I have picked on the term “synchronicity” to designate a hypothetical factor equal in rank to causality as a principle of explanation. In my essay “On the Nature of the Psyche, ”35 I considered
... See moreC. G. Jung • Synchronicity
This is why the wellness industry sells regulation as serenity. Why calm women are praised as healthy women. Because your body’s agitation might be accurate. Your inability to settle might be wisdom. And that threatens everything. Embodied women feel their hunger and honour it. She feels her exhaustion and rests. She feels her rage and trusts it.... See more
ailey jolie • The Woman Who Lives in Her Body
Essay-crafting isn’t about communication, it’s about hypnosis. And essay-reading is mostly about self-hypnosis.
So... Something
Jung first used the term “synchronicity” only in 1930, in his memorial address for Richard Wilhelm,4 the translator of the I Ching, or Book of Changes.
C. G. Jung • Synchronicity
viewing negative emotions as barriers to happiness and fulfillment is about as accurate as believing them to be nefarious sprites that require a cranial exorcism. Instead, Kross advises that we see them for what they are: information. That information may not feel pleasant. Unchecked and unexamined, it may lead us to act poorly. But negative... See more