It is often said that crying helps us feel better. However, this does not apply to crying born of a secondary feeling—the so-called self-pity. While the primary form of this emotion relates to a feeling of deep pain and grief caused by loss, its pseudo-version manifests differently. Instead of feeling the depth of the pain, […]
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28.03.2011
A Time for Every Purpose
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 If this is your thought of the day, check whether the way you look at nature outside is different from the way you look at your own inner nature. You will realize that these two coincide if, […]
24.03.2011
The Price of Mastery
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” Michelangelo When we see the achievements of the people we admire, we may be filled with regret that we do not possess their gift. But what lies behind people’s gifts is a great deal […]
“Despite all that recently popular self-help books seem to suggest, our emotional and spiritual journey is of necessity a slow process—sometimes even agonizingly slow. This is because the perspective of the intellect, while usually helpful, is not always sufficient. The unspoken unifying thesis of most self-help books is that we simply need to identify what […]
21.03.2011
David Gordon, “Mindful Dreaming”
I recommend this book to you—the author is David Gordon: Mindful Dreaming: A Practical Guide for Emotional Healing Through Transformative Mythic Journeys. This is a book that presents practical ideas and techniques for interpreting our dreams in an accessible language. And dream interpretation is a very complex matter. In Jungian analysis, where dream analysis is […]
19.03.2011
To know that you are walking towards summer
“Remember the seasons. With the onset of spring, one is not surprised if one day we have cold, piercing, wintry weather, and the next it is warm and rainy. Despite the inconsistency of the weather, we know that we are moving toward summer. It is the same with us. Being an inseparable part of nature, […]
According to David Gordon, author of The Mindful Dreamer, you can use the following “markers for the phases of the journey”—both in your daily life and in your dreams. You will recognize that you are in the stage of the Calling when your energy fades and diminishes. This is the stage of autumn, when our […]
What Jung calls “the path of individuation,” Joseph Campbell calls “the mythical Hero’s Journey.” Although you may encounter different numbers of stages of this journey, most often they are four: “calling,” “journey,” “enlightenment,” and “return.” David Gordon compares this fourfold structure of the process of returning to our spiritual roots, in his book The Mindful […]
15.03.2011
David Gordon: The Ten Lessons of Awareness
According to David Gordon, a Jungian analyst and author of the book Mindful Dreaming, in order to interpret dreams we need to know the map of our inner journey. These are the different challenges of awareness that arise at different stages of our inner journey—the so-called Calling, Journey, Enlightenment, and Return. What we become aware […]
M. Scott Peck: “In my practice as a psychotherapist, I regularly told my patients: Psychotherapy is not about happiness, but about power. If you go the whole way, I cannot guarantee that you will leave here even one iota happier. What I can promise you is that you will leave here more competent.” And I […]
“Only choiceless awareness can lead to non-duality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love. If you love, you can do what you will. But if you begin by doing what you want, or doing what you do not want in obedience to some traditional system or ideas, ideals and […]
08.03.2011
Osho: Celebration of life is unconditional
I share another very insightful and beautiful text from Osho on the subject of sadness and what it means to celebrate the wholeness of life, including the sadness in it. “Even about misery you can take an attitude of celebration. For example: you are sad – don’t get identified with sadness. Become a witness and […]
