Jean Houston on how our wounding may contain the seeds of healing and transformation.

Truth.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books… — Carl G. Jung, Letters, Vol. 1

[T]o study soul, we must go deep, and when we go deep, soul becomes involved. The logos of the soul, 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, implies the act of travelling the soul's labyrinth in which 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩. — James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld

Whereas the average individual has no soul of his own, because the group and its canon of values tell him what he may or may not be psychically, the hero is one who can call his soul his own because he has fought for it and won it. — Erich Neumann

Jungian, James Hollis on how ideological dependency encourages regression.

John O'Donohue with a beautiful passage on how 'your vision is your home'.

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalised into harmlessness. — Carl G. Jung, Collected Works 9i

[Fritz] Perls felt that most psychotherapy, and particularly psychoanalysis, was too intellectual, ignoring the physical sensations of the individual. One of his sayings was that we must 'lose our heads to come to our senses'. — Deldon Anne McNeely, Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology

Spot on from Jung.

Love this from Jungian, David Tacey on the newly emerging spirituality.

On how suppressed aspects of archetypes—such as the Great Mother—can reappear in obsessions.

Murray Stein on how Jung chose to listen to 'the spirit of the depths' rather than the 'spirit of the time' — something we could all perhaps learn from.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Jungian, Marion Woodman with powerful words to live by.

Jungian, Kathie Carlson from her book, 'In Her Image: The Unhealed Daughter's Search for Her Mother'.

The wonderful Oliver Sacks.

Life cannot be made to conform to a system, it cannot be forced into a framework, however nobly conceived; and a mind that has merely been trained in factual knowledge is incapable of meeting life with its variety, its subtlety, its depths and great heights. — Krishnamurti

Beautiful from Jung.

An alchemical perspective on the role of the Kali archetype in personal transformation.

Jungian, James Hollis on depression.

Your False Self is your necessary warm-up act, the ego part of you that establishes your separate identity, especially in the first half of life. Basically it is your incomplete self trying to pass for your whole self. We fall in love with the part so much that we deny the Whole. — Richard Rohr

Jungian, David Tacey on spirituality in the context of mental health.

Most people are too indolent to think deeply about even the moral aspects of their behaviour of which they are conscious; they are certainly too lazy to consider how the unconscious affects them. — Marie-Louise von Franz

Jungian, Marion Woodman on the power and importance of Crone energy for women.

Jungian, James Hollis on how we're all called to a heroic journey.

On how our persona can easily become a trap.

On the Tarot/I Ching/astrology and their relationship to free will.

Marie-Louise von Franz on the archetype of the hero.

For anyone who wishes to learn more about the much maligned and misunderstood archetype of the Crone, I highly recommend Barbara Walker's book, 'The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power'. #MyBookShelf #BookSky

On loss.

The victory of an over-rationalised life is promoted at the expense of the more primitive and natural vitality. — John P. Conger, Jung and Reich: The Body as Shadow

Thomas Moore on our need for sex with soul.

Glorious passage from Jung on descent and rebirth.

How eros can lead us towards the divine.

The ever-inspiring, Alan Watts.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, beautiful here, on the limitations of the ego.

Verse 38 from the oh-so-wise, Tao Te Ching on distinguishing the highest from the lowest morality.

Jungian, Robert A. Johnson on loss of intimacy in our culture.

Many have thought that individuation is a form of narcissistic preoccupation. Rather the enlarged person, the one who undertakes and returns from the quest, serves the tribe through challenge, redemption and reinvigoration. — James Hollis, Tracking the Gods

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. — David Whyte, The Winter of Listening [from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨]

Jungian, Jolande Jacobi on dreams.

It's an important realisation that nobody is without shadow: no individual, no group or tribe, no nation. This must be faced and confronted before any change can take place and before a more profound dialogue with another can begin. — Murray Stein, The Mystery of Transformation

One of my favourite psychospiritual teachers, Michael Meade on depth of vision.

On the failure to honour one's innermost Self.

The touchstone is being alone with oneself. This is the way. — Carl G. Jung, The Red Book

Jungian, Murray Stein on 'soul loss' in the process of personal transformation.

Fabulous passage from Iain McGilchrist.

On spiritual pregnancy.

Jungian, Robert Johnson on 'death of the ego'.