dark night
What happens in liminal spaces? Doubt, discomfort, unfamiliarity, anxiety. But also growth, change, and discovery. Liminal spaces offer all of the ingredients for creativity.
Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity
However, what is less known is that we can also project buried talents and positive qualities onto others. Jung called this the ‘Golden Shadow,’ which contains the creative potential and greatness in ourselves that we are unable to see (except in other people), perhaps because we were shamed for these qualities or maybe because owning them would be... See more
Kirsten Powers • How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone but Especially Elizabeth Gilbert
Dark Night of the Soul (Dover Thrift Editions: Religion)
amazon.comOur rejection of our pain does not allow us to recognize it as anything but an unfortunate necessity
Healing yourself doesn’t need to be so painful.
we inevitably will have to deal with our numbness, approaching it with as much care as we can, ceasing to numb ourselves to our numbness. If doing so seems to break our heart, we are on the right path, even if we are on our hands and knees. For when our heart breaks, it doesn’t shatter; it breaks open, expanding to include more and more.
Robert Augustus Masters Ph.d. • Spiritual Bypassing
A tree doesn’t abandon its roots
Carl Jung: How to Embrace Your Dark Side
roots - darkness
leaves - light
(both are needed for tree to grow)
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious- Carl Jung
Andy Travis • Your Shadow Is Your Superpower
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
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