🌒 shadow
by baja · updated 4d ago
🌒 shadow
But he who cannot mock himself will be mocked by others. So accept your self-mockery so that everything divine and heroic falls from you and you become completely human. What is divine and heroic in you is a mockery to the other in you. For the sake of the other in you, set off your admired role which you previously performed for your own self and
... See morefrom The Red Book by C. G. Jung
baja added 4d ago
When the God enters my life, I return to my poverty for the sake of the God. I accept the burden of poverty and bear all my ugliness and ridiculousness, and also everything reprehensible in me. I thus relieve the God of all the confusion and absurdity that would befall him if I did not accept
from The Red Book by C. G. Jung
baja added 4d ago
- "When you see your matter going black, rejoice: for that is the beginning of the work."
— Rosarium Philosophorumfrom The Alchemy of Shadow Work by Alyssa Polizzi
baja added 17d ago
- As a psychological analog, the nigredo state draws the psyche deep into the underworld, where we are like to experience a dark night of the soul. Attachments, false beliefs, illusions, emotional distortions are stripped away in the process. Rather than turn away from this act, alchemists counsel us to stay with it, to make things blacker than black... See more
from The Alchemy of Shadow Work by Alyssa Polizzi
baja added 17d ago
- In the alchemical opus, the early operations and procedures are characterized by a destruction of the prima materia. It must be cooked, incinerated, dissolved until it reaches a uniform blackness; this is the first stage of the work — the nigredo . Breaking down the material helps reduce it back to its primal state. Only then can it be truly redeem... See more
from The Alchemy of Shadow Work by Alyssa Polizzi
baja added 17d ago
- The nature of working with the shadow can be incredibly destabilizing in one’s life. Opening the gates to the unconscious is much like peering beyond the veil into the great unknown, it opens a portal of sorts, and what comes out can be as frightening as it can be healing. Many times, the fear comes before the cure. These previously unknown parts o... See more
from The Alchemy of Shadow Work by Alyssa Polizzi
baja added 17d ago
In both directions, we encounter our shadows, the unclaimed, undesired, and un-befriended aspects of our nature. To become fully developed human beings, we must confront both our demons and our angels.
from The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom by Angeles Arrien
baja added 2mo ago
Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive … the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive. … The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and beco
... See morefrom 1Q84: Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami
baja added 2mo ago
- The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort.
from How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
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