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He thought that this voice was “the soul in the primitive sense,” which he called the anima (the Latin word for soul).
C. G. Jung • The Red Book
When we incarnate, the soul is exiled from the Beloved like a reed plucked from the reedbed—and longing is our yearning to be reunited. It is also the sound of our being called homeward. Sophia knows the pattern of your fate and is calling you toward the life you long for, and that life is also longing for you. Resonance is that overlap between you
... See moreToko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
anima. The anima,15 the “soul image,” which the male experiences in the female, is his own inner femininity and soulfulness, an element in his own psyche.
Erich Neumann • The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Works by Erich Neumann Book 15)
This summoning of internal imagery may seem like the description of miraculous oracular powers, but it is really the simple process of uncovering something our deeper psyche already knows. The deep psyche or soul, left to find its way, will offer up or recognize in the outer world the images germane to its place on the path of life.
David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
el ánima conduce al Self, al Arquetipo Central, o sea, por medio de la imagen que representa al ánima, se llega a la vivencia de la totalidad y la completud, simbolizada por el centro organizador de la psique. Es la experiencia de la totalidad alcanzada por medio del amor.
Maria Helena R. Mandacarú Guerra • El libro rojo de Jung
The muse and angel come from outside us: the angel gives lights, and the muse gives forms (Hesiod learned from her). Loaf of gold or tunic fold: the poet receives forms in his grove of laurel. But one must awaken the duende in the remotest mansions of the blood.
Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende
For centuries we have searched for the right term for this “call.” The Romans named it your genius; the Greeks, your daimon; and the Christians your guardian angel. The Romantics, like Keats, said the call came from the heart, and Michelangelo’s intuitive eye saw an image in the heart of the person he was sculpting. The Neoplatonists referred to an
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
Nel Medioevo, molto tempo prima che i fisiologi dimostrassero che, a causa della nostra struttura ghiandolare, noi possediamo elementi sia maschili sia femminili, si diceva che «ciascun uomo porta una donna dentro di sé». È questo elemento femminile presente in ciascun maschio che io ho definito «Anima».