“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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Below is a text by Osho that I like very much: “This is a beautiful method, it will be very useful for you. For example, if you are feeling very discontented, what to do? Patanjali [the most famous exponent of Yoga] says ponder on the opposite: if you are feeling discontented, contemplate on contentment: What […]
Yesterday I was visiting some friends, and the hostess was talking about how every week acquaintances called her to ask whether she could help them find a job. She is very compassionate, and I could sense how she worried about them and suffered because she could not help them. At the same time, I saw […]
