"It appears to me that as we open ourselves to see what our soul is made of and
who we really are, we always find some material that is a profound challenge."
"Soul is nothing like ego. Soul is the font of who we are, and yet it is far beyond our capacity to devise and to control.
We can cultivate, tend, enjoy, and participate in the things of the soul, but we can`t outwit it or manage it or shape it to
the designs of a willful ego."
"Soul is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves. It has to do with depth, value,
relatedness, heart and personal substance....Care of the soul begins with observance of how the soul manifests
itself and how it operates."
"When you regard the soul with an open mind, you begin to find messages that lie within the illness, the corrections that
can be found in remorse and other uncomfortable feelings, and the necessary changes requested by depression and anxiety."
" A person fully identified with dependency thinks that health and happiness lie in the achievement of independence.
But that move into oppposites is deceptive. Oddly, it keeps the person in the same problem, only from the opposite side.
The wish for independence maintains the split. A homeopathic move, going with what is presented rather than against it,
is to learn how to be dependent in a way that is satisfying and not so extreme as to split dependence off from independence."
The basic intention in any caring, physical or psychological, is to alleviate suffering. But in relation to the symptom itself,
observance means first of all listening and looking carefully at what is being revealed in the suffering. An intent to heal
can get in the way of seeing. By doing less, more is accomplished. Simple gestures, taking place on the surface of life,
can be of central importance to the soul. In fact the conflict itself is creative and perhaps should never be healed."
"For Jung, there are two kinds of shadow: one consists of the possibilities in life that we reject because of certain choices
we have made. The person we choose to be, for example, automatically creates a dark double - the person we choose
not to be. "
"For some people sex and money are looming shadows, while for others they are simply part of life. Moral purity
and responsible living can be shadow aspects to some. Jung also believed there is an absolute shadow,
not relative to our life choices and habits. In other words, there is evil in the world and in the human heart. If we don't
recognize this, we have a naive attitude that can get us into trouble. Jung thought the soul can benefit by coming
to terms with both kinds of shadow, losing some of its naive innocence in the process."
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