dark night
Living Myth Podcast 458 - From Chaos and Trauma to Cosmos and Renewal
youtube.comDeepening our dharma and healing our karma co-inform each other. Every gift has a shadow, every shadow has a gift – it’s helpful to explore them together.
Daniel Schmachtenberger • Dharma Inquiry - Daniel Schmachtenberger
In fact, the Buddha had begun the process of growing down early in his life, when he left his protected palace gardens to enter the street. There the sick, the dead, the poor, and the old drew his soul down into the question of how to live life in the world.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
growing down
In the Dark: A Lyrical Illustrated Invitation to Find the Light Behind the Fear
Corinna Luykenthemarginalian.org
THE LONG DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL (ALL IS LOST) This third quarter of your story is almost certainly going to contain a scene or sequence which since the ancient Greeks has been called THE LONG DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, also known as ALL IS LOST, or APPARENT DEFEAT, or THE BLACK MOMENT, or VISIT TO DEATH (which may also be a separate scene).
Alexandra Sokoloff • Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II: Story Structure for Pantsers and Plotters (Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!) Book 2)
To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. -Thich Nhat Hanh
‘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 becomes the devil. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint
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