The Quality of Our Suffering
“We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.”
— Audre Lorde
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“That’s the thing about Sagittarius: We seem larger than life and unapproachable on the outside. Few people will ask if we’re okay because we’re great entertainers. Even in the midst of a breakdown, a Sagittarius is mesmerizing and magnetic. We appear in control because we want even the drama to be beautiful. There’s an effortlessness to the archer that translates to irreverence — half heart, half I-don’t-care.”
Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky
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“A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. But all creativeness in the realm of the spirit as well as every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul, and the cause of the suffering is spiritual stagnation, or psychic sterility.”
— Carl Gustav Jung
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In the Jung World James Hillman is somewhat of a Trickster figure.
— Jon Wilson
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James Hillman undoes. You enter his writing and a conversation or an argument will occur, either with him, with yourself, or…
