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How To Be True
“I feel that from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis. Musical interaction reaches deep archetypal material that we can only sometimes reach in our analytical work with patients.”
— C.G. Jung, 1956, as quoted by Margaret Tilly
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They asked a shaman:
“What is poison?
- Anything beyond what we need is poison.
It can be power, laziness, food, ego, ambition, vanity, fear, anger, or whatever.
- What is fear?
Non acceptance of uncertainty
If we accept uncertainty, it becomes adventure.
What is envy?
- No acceptance of good in the other.
If we accept good, it becomes inspiration.
What is anger?
- No acceptance of what is beyond our control.
If we accept, it becomes tolerance.
What is hate?
- Non-acceptance of people as they are
If we accept unconditionally, it becomes love.
— Author unknown.
That is the question, isn’t it? We don’t know how not to try to be better, smarter, better looking, more somehow. Animals don’t get…
