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The Age of The Soul
If you are one of those people who has the ability to make it down to the bottom of the ocean, the ability to swim the dark waters without fear, the astonishing ability to move through life’s worst crucibles and not die, then you also have the ability to bring something back to the surface that helps others in a way that they cannot achieve themselves.
~ Lidia Yuknavitch
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And I like James Hillman’s idea, that the soul isn’t young or old, or it is both. And the aim maybe, is just not to be too dominated by the senex or the puer(and people can also become dominated or ‘possessed’ by the senex, you know, when they become worldly weary or cynical). And i like to think there will always be some of the child or the youth within me, and some of its daring and imagination, and its new life. It is one of the most complicated topics in psychology, if you ask me, the topic of how to reconcile the senex(old man) and puer(youth) within ourselves.
— Jon Wilson
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Reminds me of this from The Sheltering Sky: “Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places…
