Member-only story
The Real Business of The World
We say: Well, those are just primitives, we do more useful things. But such things are less meaningful, they are always only about doing business. Whereas those people take care of the business of the world.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
*
I strive therefore that my attitude is as far from the philosopher’s cold superiority as from Caesar’s arrogance. The most opaque men emit some radiance…. “Our great mistake is to try to obtain from each particular the virtues he does not possess, by neglecting to cultivate those he does possess.”
Marguerite Yourcenar | Memories of Adrian
*
Most of the time when we’re immersed in spiritual bypassing, we like the light but not the heat, doing whatever we can to distance ourselves from the flames….
But if we really want the light, we cannot afford to flee the heat.
As Victor Frankl said, “What gives light must endure burning.” And being with the fire’s heat doesn’t just mean sitting with the difficult stuff in meditation, but also going into it, trekking to its core, facing and entering and getting intimate with whatever is there, however scary or traumatic or sad or raw….
Robert Augustus Masters
