The philosopher Plotinus suggested that while the body favors a straight line, the soul hankers for the circle. This mythic, circular time, (which is really no kind of time at all) laughs at the straight line and the alarm clock.~Dr. Martin Shaw, 𝘈 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦
The philosopher Plotinus suggested that while the body favors a straight line, the soul hankers for the circle. This mythic, circular time, (which is really no kind of time at all) laughs at the straight line and the alarm clock.~Dr. Martin Shaw, 𝘈 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦
"The major problem of modern man is the fragmentariness of his experience. The present demands so much of his attention that he seldom has a chance to take stock, to see things as a whole." ~Colin Wilson, New Pathways in Psychology
"Were the ego identical with the self, it would be inconceivable how we could sometimes see ourselves in dreams in quite different forms and with entirely different meanings."~C. G. Jung, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Volume 6: Psychological Types
When one tries desperately to be good, wonderful, perfect, then all the more the shadow develops a will to be black, evil and destructive.~CG Jung, 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳 𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 1930-1934
Parents should always be conscious of the fact that they themselves are the principal cause of neurosis in their children.~CG Jung, Collected Works, Volume 17
“I am not predicting doom. But I am stating that if we ignore evil, we will move closer to doom, and the growth and triumph of evil may well result.”~ Rollo May, The Problem of Evil: A Letter to Carl Rogers
Jung tells us that the image of each man’s wholeness and potential lies in his own unconscious and not in the minds of others. ~ Russell Lockhart, Words as Eggs
The deeper you go, and the closer you get to the final realization, the heavier the resistance. You are coming down to those areas that are the ones that are repressed, and it’s that repression system that you have to pass through.~Joseph Campbell
“Poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. It is actually a magic spell. It changes things; it changes you.” —Philip Pullman, Interview in The New Yorker
Emptiness is a great feminine secret. It is something absolutely alien to man; the chasm, the unplumbed depths, the yin. ~CG Jung, CW 9i
“The primary reason we pay attention to dreams is that they do not arise from the ego.~James Hollis, Hollis
Non-attachment is not complacency. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn.~Lama Surya Das
Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. Attention has consequences.~ Iain McGilchrist, The Master and his Emissary
If you want to change the world, change the metaphor. Change the story.~Joseph Campbell
As any good therapist will tell you, you cannot heal what you do not acknowledge, and what you do not consciously acknowledge will remain in control of you from within, festering and destroying you and those around you.~ Richard Rohr
[Y]ou are defined by what lies most deeply within you, by your values, and by your actions. The acts of others, especially those who are disordered, do not define you. Civilization has always depended on the good people doing what is necessary for the daily maintenance of their society.~James Hollis
"It is the suffering, crippled side of the personality which is both the dark shadow that won't change and also the redeemer that transforms one's life and alters one's values...The shadow is both the awful thing that needs redemption, and the suffering redeemer who can provide it."~Liz Greene
Certainly, when one person in a room is more conscious, it changes the consciousness of everyone in that room. And in a family, if one person is coming into consciousness, everyone in the household is going to be changed.~Marion Woodman, Parabola Interview
Man does not know he carries the stars hidden in himself and he is the microcosm and thus carries within him the whole firmament~ Paracelsus
[W]hat Jung is advocating is human beings to grow up, take responsibility and not just put it off conveniently onto somebody else who will forgive them for their sins and so they can remain defensive and unconscious for the rest of their lives.~Murray Stein
The Sufi masters knew that any great illusionary passion was the unrecognized beginning of the love of God; and we today see it as the vehicle of the process of individuation, as behind all human love lies ultimately the fascination with.. the Self.~Marie-Louise von Franz
One must lose resentment; it is big work to resolve fury and grudges. We are full of grudges. We are full of grudges and frustrations for love not obtained. Illness is a lack of love." ~Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic
Hell is the concretization of your life experiences, a place where you're stuck, the wasteland. In hell, you are so bound to yourself that grace cannot enter. ~Joseph Campbell
"Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep." ~Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape
In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.~Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You
Any time you identify a wasteland element in your life—illness, boredom, lethargy, alienation, emptiness, loss, addiction, failure, anger, or outrage—it is time to take a journey. You can be called to the quest by such dissatisfaction or simply by a desire for adventure.~Carol S. Pearson
When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis, What Matters Most
Carl Jung once said there are three key ingredients in psychotherapy (which means, in Greek, “attending to the Soul”): insight, courage, and enduring action."~Elizabeth Spring
It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you. Nobody wants you to do what you want to do. They want you to go on their trip, but you can do what you want. I did. I went into the woods & read for five years. ~Joseph Campbell
