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“Individuation is becoming the thing which is not the ego, and that is very strange.” — Carl Jung

⚖️ Balancing Ego and Authenticity | Readwise

“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”

— Carl Jung

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“In the second half we discover that it is no longer sufficient to find meaning in being successful. We need a deeper source of purpose.”
— Richard Rohr

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These astonishing adaptations are the sum total of myriad small defiances of prediction — chances taken on the improbable and the untested, wild guesses at the shape of the possible — without which bats would not exist. But they do, and we need them. We need bats — “swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together,” D.H. Lawrence... See more

Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of the Possible Over the Probable

Learning To Live

The intelligence of life and the adaptability of nature. We live in the sacred expression of God’s exploration, life as the only absolute. Love it.

You are caught in the river of life’s expectations. For you to be alive and knowingly flow with the stream of consciousness, riding the crest of the wave into the future of creation becoming aware of itself through your courageous exploration and the difficult assimilation of life’s lessons, traumas and all. Hanging on to excessive, heavy,

Learning To Live

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work... See more

Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 7 – swissmiss

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Only you can change the world. If only I can convince every single human on earth simultaneously of this fact. Life goal.

When you hit Rock Bottom, it's a sign to pause, rest, and reflect.

You've buried your calling deep in your core and suppressed your intuition for so long that your body aches from neglect.

https://substack.com/@jenhitze/note/c-52138567

Learning To Live

The train wreck; slowly but surely, then suddenly and devastatingly. Your true self waking you up your proto identity, or ego, the assumed reality you’re so desperately hanging on to. Wake up and see, understand, integrate, release, become the you you’re meant to unfold from. Let go to flow.

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you

are fundamentally at war with yourself..

The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you

know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

https://substack.com/@jenhitze/note/c-48881331

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Own your past. Your life is your lesson. Don’t lie to yourself. In your shadow is your gold.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it,

play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good

for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it

now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the

signal to spend it now. Something more will

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On creating a Body Of Work as you progress in discovering what you’re thinking of and why you’re thinking of it, then becoming the person who realises that you’re not a fixed entity, but creating yourself anew as you bravely stumble along unbecoming the default mimesis that is hiding your true and ever emergent self.