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Why Are You Here?
Hillman says his acorn theory “holds that each person bears a uniqueness that asks to be lived and that is already present before it can be lived (p.6)”.
“We live in order to attain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development & self-awreness […] Our life is not made entirely by ourselves. The main bulk of it is brought into existence out of sources that are hidden to us. Even complexes can start a century or more before a man is born. There is something like karma”
- Carl Gustav JUNG, Letters I (1946), pp.434, 436.
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When you travel,
A new silence
Goes with you,
And if you listen,
You will hear
What your heart would
Love to say.
A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover
More of your hidden life,
And the urgencies
That deserve to claim you.
May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.
