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Calls For Transformation
Of course, we all want a good life. And when we encounter life’s difficulties, we want to quickly restore our peace of mind and good relationships, and we want to keep our lifestyle and habits — the personalities we are used to. And, of course, our culture supports this point of view. The culture doesn’t see our wounds and difficulties as calls for transformation. It sees them as symptoms to alleviate so we can get back to “normal,” which actually means functional in a social way, not a spiritual, psychological, or even a personally fulfilling way.
— from Becoming a Love Warrior: Nine Jungian Lessons in Love and Power, by Bud Harris PhD
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A woman who has no animus has no pep, no enterprise, no intelligence, no initiative. She is a very poor creature. She is just a womb producing children and a hand cooking in the kitchen.
~Marie-Louise von Franz, The Way of the Dream
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Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.
— Flannery O’Connor
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The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot…
