“But I only achieve the feeling of limitlessness when I am extremely limited. Man’s greatest limitation is that ‘self’ which manifests itself in the experience of ‘I am only this’. Only consciousness of our narrow confinement in the self forms the link to the limitlessness of the unconscious. In such awareness we experience ourselves concurrently […]
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" I will call the world a school instituted for the purpose of teaching little children to read. I will call the human heart the hornbook used in that school. And I will call the child able to read, the soul made from that school and its hornbook. Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways...."
John Keats
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“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.” P.D. Ouspensky
The word “masochism” is usually associated with pathology, including its manifestations in sexuality. However, masochism has multiple dimensions and is more often found in forms that we would not call masochistic. Below I outline various manifestations of self-destructive behaviour provoked by an unconscious sense of guilt and the desire for self-punishment. On this occasion, in her […]
After Jesper Juul, I would like to present the perspective of another male psychologist and psychotherapist on the crisis of the masculine role in the family—James Hillman, as expressed in his book The Soul’s Code. According to Hillman, the problem of absent fathers lies in the fact that the pendulum has swung to the opposite […]
“Bodhidharma stands far above the moralists, the puritans, the so-called good men, the altruists. He has gone to the very bottom of the problem. If awareness doesn’t arise in you, your whole morality is bogus, your culture is simply a thin layer which could be destroyed by anybody. But once your morality has come out […]
” An ancient adept has said: “If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.” This Chinese saying, unfortunately only too true, stands in sharp contrast to our belief in the “right” method irrespective of the man who applies it. In reality, everything depends on the man and […]
“He who can follow the small thoughts manages the big decisions.” Small thoughts are like the small pebbles that turn a car around. To notice them, we need uncommon observation and honesty. In terms of self-knowledge, these skills are the same as the microscope in the biology lab. That is why the knowledge that Maha […]
16.11.2024
The Stonecutter, a parable
A popular parable that is a wonderful story about the nature of desire (I will comment on this below). “Once upon a time, there was a stonemason. Every day, he would go to the mountain to cut stones. While he worked, he sang to himself, for though he was a poor man, he did not […]
15.11.2024
Liz Green on martyrdom and masochism
Below I share an excerpt from Liz Green’s book, “Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption,” which I find particularly valuable because it shows some very important distinctions between the sick manifestations of masochism and the healthy forms of the quest for redemption. “Defining masochism solely as a pathology is a lopsided and simplistic approach […]
“The latent ego is in complete identification with the Self (the god, the archetype of the Whole personality). The Self is born, but the ego is made; and in the beginning all is Self. This condition is described by Neumann as uroboros (the tail-eating serpent). Since the Self is the center and totality of being, […]
15.10.2024
Mullah Nasreddin, I am nobody
“It so happened that Mullah Nasreddin approached a high official. Outraged by his insolence, Mullah Nasreddin did not hold back: – Where on earth, you kind, are you so arrogant? Who are you? – As if you didn’t know! I’m the manager! – Well, good, and what will you become then? – Governor! – And […]
“Jung says that women with a negative mother-complex often miss the first half of their lives, they walk past it in a dream. Life for them is a constant source of annoyance and irritation. But if they can overcome this negative mother complex, they have a good chance in the second half of life of […]
