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Growing Down
WHAT IS IT THAT WE LONG FOR?
“We want healing from illness, but it is through illness that we grow and are healed of our complacency. We are afraid of loss, and yet it is through what we lose that we are able to find what nothing can take away from us. We run from sadness and depression. But if we really face our sadness we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing; and if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.
“And what is it that we long for?”
~ Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom.
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“Until the culture recognises the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.”
— James Hillman
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Whereas the patriarchal lives in either/or, the feminine lives in both/and, enjoying the process, not glued on the product, and moving with presence…. All of us need the masculine, not the patriarchy but the masculine discrimination, discernment, capacity for clarity, and the courage to use a sword when necessary. Some things have to be cut out of our lives and courage and strength is involved in that masculine energy as well as the capacity to come into the world. It would be wonderful to bring…
