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As our dark nights deepen, we find ourselves recovering our love of mystery. When we were children, most of us were good friends with mystery. The world was full of it and we loved it. Then as we grew older, we slowly accepted the indoctrination that mystery exists only to be solved. For many of us, mystery became an adversary; unknowing became a
... See moreGerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
your identity is not equivalent to your biography, and that there is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there is still a sureness in you, where there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you. And I think the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is, now and again, to visit that... See more
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
At another level she compares the taoist idea of Yin and Yang, in which to our western minds the active principle, Yang, plays the more important role, while the receptive principle, Yin, is subordinate. As is well known, Yang is traditionally associated with the masculine, and Yin with the feminine. She argues, purely on the grounds of philosophy... See more
Quantum physics, taoism, and the hemispheres
your sense of self could change depending on your location.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
So if the mercurial fire contains both the horror of the abyss and the ecstasy of divine love, it is necessary for the alchemist (or the modern seeker) to learn to sustain that unbearable tension without fragmenting, to learn to live the torment of their conflicts. One cannot access divine love by ignoring the power of the secret fire; we must... See more
Alchemist • Carl Jung: Mercurius, the fire of transformative potential
Mercurius is the wonder of the world because it reminds us that what is lowest and most rejected in us contains the germ of what is highest , and that spiritual forces do not act only from the heights of a transcendent beyond, but also incarnated in the darkness of our creation. This discovery allows all those psychic forces we fear as destructive... See more
Alchemist • Carl Jung: Mercurius, the fire of transformative potential
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In this way, Mercurius stands as a nexus between the celestial spirit and earthly matter, being the mediator that allows the light of natural wisdom to be accessible to the adept