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The Lost Feminine And The Inner Marriage
(Love) is a mystery which no human being has so far penetrated but which is at the same time the goal of life, born anew in each of us.
All that we can say is that it is part of a process of reciprocal individuation, of becoming conscious and whole in the encounter.
- Marie-Louise von Franz
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“It is evil to assume that you are not connected to and responsible for the well-being of others….We are all in this together, and the gravest sin is to ignore this or lose sight of this.”
— Marlon Brando
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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
— Jamie Anderson
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For Jung, the whole process of the soul’s journey is toward the inner marriage of the mature masculine with the mature feminine.
— Marion Woodman
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As the ego and Self come into relationship, and our desire is wedded to our soul, the result is a unified personality, which makes living not only an art but also…
