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We Disagree With Ourselves
… I’ve often seen people become neurotic because they’ve been settling for inadequate, or wrong answers to life’s problems. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outside success or money and remain unhappy and nervous even when they get everything they seek… Their life has not enough content, it has no meaning…
… If they had lived in a time and environment where man, through myths, was still in relationship with the ancestral world and therefore with nature experienced and not only seen from the outside, they could have avoided this disagreement with themselves…
_Carl Gustav Jung “Memories, dreams, reflections”
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She had only so much ‘self’ to give. She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. She had done nothing wrong.
Why is ANYBODY surprised that Sinead O’Connor is dead? Who cared enough to save Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday? Where do you go when death can be the best outcome? Was this music madness worth Sinead’s life? No, it wasn’t.
— MORRISSEY, 26 July, 2023.
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The soul is not ours, we belong to it, it is we who are inside the soul. Our real job is to acknowledge her… Here is the nature of…
