The Work-of-Art Life
Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe).
— Greg Braden
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If you engage too much in outside validation, you lose the path to yourself.
- Wim Hof
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I was blessed by having both parents in my life, yet from each I learned to leave my feelings behind — spontaneity, anger, joy, and hope as well. Only in later years, when the psyche rebelled, did I begin to come back to these personal treasures left behind.
I grieve, more than judge, the world of our parents, because for them their world was so circumscribed by socialized roles, categories, scripts, and expectations — and the sanctions for those who did not conform were quite severe.
Jung’s concept of individuation is meant to be seen in this light — namely, as a duty to the soul.
(T)hat this is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
~James Hollis
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The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don’t care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ill from it. The only failure now is…
