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They still had hope, for hope in the heart of men lives on lean pasture.

Our soul is that part of the unconscious that is outside the ego, out of sight, yet mediates the unconscious to the ego. Dr. Jung said that the soul is “both receiver and transmitter,”

For all humankind and through all the ages, the sea has been the great symbol of the unconscious. The islands across the sea, the exotic kingdoms and distant lands, have always represented the Great Unknown. Our longing for these places of mystery, magic, flying carpets, and genies has a deep inner meaning. It is our nostalgia for the mysterious, u

is always our richest opportunity. Zen teaches that inner growth always involves an experience of “a red-hot coal stuck in the throat.” In our development we always come to a problem, an obstacle, that goes so deep that we “can’t swallow it and can’t cough it up.” This exactly fits our Western experience of romantic love: We can’t live with it, and

Our task is to find the truth in romantic love and the level on which this truth can live.

A myth is the collective “dream” of an entire people at a certain point in their history. It is as though the entire population dreamed together, and that “dream,” the myth,

“A myth is something that is true on the inside, but not true on the outside.” The teacher did not understand, but often children have more psychological wisdom than adults. A myth is true: It is not true in the outer, physical sense, but it is an accurate expression of a psychological situation, of the inner condition of the psyche.

His “individuality” turns out to be an evasion, a circular path back into the woods. If this man had stayed in his relationship or his marriage and taken responsibility for developing his individuality there, then he could have faced the issue squarely.

Through this symbol of the royal couple the psyche tells us that the self is one, though we experience it as complementary opposites. It shows us that we must make a “marriage,