In an interview with Marie Louise von Franz in November 1990, Hein Stufkens asked her about the place of individuation in love relationships. Below is her answer: H.S.: What is the place of individuation in a love relationship? v.Fr.: In a love relation, as Jung once put it, you risk everything. You put yourself on […]
Lessons of Love
"Love is the most essential existential fact. It is our basic reality and our purpose on Earth. Consciously knowing it, experiencing it for ourselves and for others, is the meaning of life."
Maryann Williamson
Maryann Williamson
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19.11.2024
Fritz Perls: You are you and I am I
In Gestalt therapy there is a well-known text, often referred to as a “prayer,” written by its founder, Fritz Perls. It reads: “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. […]
27.02.2023
A matter of personal interest
“One farmer, who always won the prize for the best corn at the local show, was in the habit of sharing the seed with all the farmers in the area. When asked why, he replied, ‘It’s really for self-interest. The wind carries the pollen from field to field. So if my neighbours grow lower quality […]
Love, with its passion and pain, becomes an urge toward individuation.That is why there is no genuine process of individuation without the experience of love —for love both torments and purifies the soul.”— Marie-Louise von Franz Below is an excerpt from Marie-Louise von Franz’s book The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine […]
There was once a great warrior. Though quite old, he was still able to defeat any opponent. His reputation spread far and wide throughout the country, and many students gathered to study under him. One day a young warrior of ill fame arrived in the village. He was determined to be the first person to […]
Below I share a short YouTube video—an interview with Marie-Louise von Franz—which is part of the film The Way of the Dream: Marie-Louise von Franz in Conversation with Fraser Boa. The person who extracted this segment titled it “Real Love Makes the Other Person Whole.” The interview begins with Fraser Boa asking for a comment […]
According to Richard Rudd, the author of The Gene Keys, there is a very special archetype encoded in human DNA where lies the secret of love. The shadow of this archetype is the decline or absence of love, while its highest and unmanifested expression (the siddhi) is the archetype of Universal Love. Between the shadow […]
14.08.2017
Forgiveness is an act of divine grace
What makes love triangles a potential for spiritual transformation is that forgiveness—the only positive way of dealing with betrayal—is not a product of ego-will, but comes from a source that is different from the desire of our conscious attitude. No matter how much we want to forgive, we cannot, because forgiveness is the final result […]
04.04.2017
Obedient and Offended or Unloved and Free?
Claudio Naranjo on his practice as a Gestalt therapist: “In my seventeen years of practice, I have repeatedly seen how patients tend to attribute responsibility for their own actions to others, choosing obedience and resentment over freedom and the risk of being unloved. Absorbed in the anonymous ‘they,’ the individual loses contact with his own […]
If you feel the need for change—if you long for something new in your relationship—do not change your partner; change something within yourself. One of the main challenges in long-term relationships is how partners deal with the inevitable crises that arise from the relationship’s development and the need for change. In such moments, the inner […]
24.03.2015
The Tortoise and the Scorpion
There is a parable about the tortoise and the scorpion that I felt like commenting on: “Once, the tortoise gave in to the scorpion’s pleas to carry him on her back across the river. The scorpion sat still for most of the way, but just before reaching the other bank, he couldn’t help himself and […]
08.03.2015
The Empty Boat
This is a story told by Lin Chi, which a close friend sent to me a while ago, and now I feel the urge to pass it on. For me, it is the best thing I have ever encountered regarding how we can stop taking life’s events personally. “When I was young, I used to […]
