Sublime

We can touch Dionysus and learn to express that archetypal joy through three psychological disciplines: active imagination, dreamwork, and ritual.

In Journey of the Heart, an extraordinary book on relationships, John Welwood points out what he calls “a natural balancing process” between partners. He writes: “Anything that one partner ignores, the other will feel a greater need to emphasize. Whatever quality of being I deny, such as power, softness or playfulness, my partner will find herself

Having configured “self,” “mind,” “body,” and “world” as discrete things, we feel that each is cut off from the other, thus blocking the flow of life. This leads to degrees of alienation, in which we feel “out of touch” with our body, our emotions, other people, and the environment.

Human beings are highly integrated, mind-affections-will-body-relational sorts of creatures.

And for me, these emotions, sensations, thoughts, impulses, and other things are emanations from parts—they are what we call trailheads.

Unity and connection grow as mutual awareness grows.

Therapists who are trained to see people as complex human beings with multiple characteristics and potentialities can help them explore their system of inner parts and take care of the wounded facets of themselves.

A crucial component of a holistic approach to individual development is a map or model of psychological wholeness. Without one, there's no systematic way to assess what elements of wholeness are missing. We need a map or model that is sensible, functional, sufficiently differentiated and nuanced, and both realistic and inclusive of the exceptional.

The community of which he is necessarily a dependent member defines him as an independent member.