Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World

we can only become truly effective redeemers when we have let go of any need to transform the kingdom and can do it freely without attachment to the outcome.

A successful synthesis of Caregiver and Warrior is a prerequisite for becoming a great Ruler, who can protect the boundaries of the kingdom while also nurturing and empowering everyone within those boundaries. The successful synthesis of the Creator and the Destroyer provides the groundwork for becoming a Magician who can be a transformer or leader

The Sage finds freedom through serving Truth; the Fool through knowing joy. Together they bring us freedom

it is time to learn to be free, and to be free in a context that includes a growing acceptance of death, both in terms of the eventual end of one’s life and the more immediate losses of dreams, illusions, and opportunities.

anytime after we have “retired” from viewing our work in terms of achievement,

The result of finding a satisfactory partnership between the Destroyer and Creator within is the capacity for “elegant simplicity,” the creation of a life that has everything you need, but no more. You let go of what no longer fits for you, and add things—not indiscriminately, but only those things that really fit who you now are. It also means red

and is neither afraid to see difficulties and suffering in life nor disappointed by them.

but when the dualisms themselves start to break down and we recognize and thoroughly accept the mixture of good and bad within any human being, including ourselves.

the integration of the Innocent and Orphan is evidenced when the hero can see without distortion by either undue sunniness or undue pessimism.