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“Jung said something that is worth considering: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." ”

“The dreams, the imaginal sphere, all the things that put us in contact with the inner life. Yes. There is no way around it, though art can provide a very good vehicle. That is why it is so important. James Hillman says there are three ways for transporting the unseen into the seen—math, music, and myths.”

“Jung's Red Book, whose message, the book's editor Sonu Shamdasani said was "to value your inner life." ”

“And if the earth is something to be controlled, something to be managed, then you can destroy it. And heal it as well, no? Yes! But only if we feel that it is something worth saving. Which is why I am so passionate about the notion of an animated universe. If it is alive, it is a part of me because I am connected to all of it. And if so, I can't damage it because what I do to it, I do to myself.”

“I think we devalue the feminine much more, which is something Jung wrote a lot about. If we cannot connect to others, there is a danger that we will destroy things. Jung was living through the atomic age, and he articulated the concern that this would all end in disaster...add the earth as feminine... climate change comes up and you see where the feminine gets battered and what the consequences are.”

“God is the One Life in and beyond the countless forms of life. Love implies duality: lover and beloved, subject and object. So love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.”

“There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.”

“Being at one with what is, at one with the present moment, doesn't mean you no longer initiate change or become incapable of taking action. But the motivation to take action comes from a deeper level, not from egoic wanting or fearing. Inner alignment with the present moment opens your consciousness and brings it into alignment with the whole… The whole, the totality of life, then acts through you.”

“If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations.”

“The source of all abundance is not outside you. It is part of who you are. However, start by acknowledging and recognizing abundance without. See the fullness of life all around you. The warmth of the sun on your skin, the display of magnificent flowers outside a florist's shop, biting into a succulent fruit, or getting soaked in an abundance of water falling from the sky. The fullness of life is there…”

“Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“the indwelling God. When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself—and being in touch with it is your natural state, not some miraculous achievement all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love."

“The Truth is inseparable from who you are... The very Being that you are is Truth. Jesus tried to convey that when he said, "I am the way and the truth and the life." These words are one of the most powerful and direct pointers to the Truth, if understood correctly. Jesus speaks of the innermost I Am, the essence identity of every man and woman, every life-form, in fact. He speaks of the life that you are.”

“In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”

“Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am not enough. Other unconscious thoughts follow: I need to play a role in order to get what I need to be fully myself; I need to get more so that I can be more. But you cannot be more than you are because underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself”

“As much as possible in everyday life, use awareness of the inner body to create space. When waiting, when listening to someone ... Whenever you "inhabit" your body in this way, it serves as an anchor for staying present in the Now. It prevents you from losing yourself in thinking, in emotions, or in external situations.

“shifting your attention from the external form of your body and from thoughts about your body—beautiful, ugly, strong, weak, too fat, too thin—to the feeling of aliveness inside it. No matter what your body's appearance is on the outer level, beyond the outer form it is an intensely alive energy field”

“Ego go arises when your sense of Beingness, of "I Am," which is formless consciousness, gets mixed up with form. This is the meaning of identification.”

“If you don't equate the body with who you are, when beauty fades, vigor diminishes, or the body becomes incapacitated, this will not affect your sense of worth or identity in any way. In fact, as the body begins to weaken, the formless dimension, the light of consciousness, can shine more easily through the fading form.”

“Too much order and you end up with Nazi Germany or collective movements, which are brutal and repressive. Too much chaos, you get anarchy. I think of the French Revolution as an example; it all began with the promise of change, but with time delivered the Committee of Public Safety and suddenly you are lopping beads off left and right.”

“There is a tendency to see "chaos", which is associated with the feminine, as negative and "order", which is associated with the masculine as good. But as with a medicine, the key is the dose.”

“Yes, this circularity in speech is very much a feminine way of approaching things. It is a fast track to the unconscious, which has also been associated with the feminine.”

“Consider this—you hypnotize yourself every time you lose yourself inside of a story on the page or on the screen. That is what trance is, not clucking like a chicken on a stage. Or, you can watch Tristan und Isolde once more and feel what the music does to you. That puts you in a trance as well. I see you're shaking your head. Ha. Never mind. So, returning to the feminine.”

“The notion that we are all connected, that things in the world and outside of it are all connected. A field with us all bumping against each other meaningfully.”

“Well, there is always some tension between sons and their mothers. And the two are remarkably similar. When we were in grade school, Alberto had his own entourage. He didn't even encourage it. The boys would just follow him around as if they were expecting him to reveal the secret held for centuries by the Cathars.”

“Stillness is the language God speaks and everything else is a bad translation.”

“Spiritual realization is to see…that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away. The Buddha was probably the first human being to see this clearly, and so anata (no self) became one of the central points of his teaching. And when Jesus said, "Deny thyself," what he meant was: Negate (and thus undo) the illusion of self. If the self-ego-were truly who I am, it would be absurd to deny it.”

“You cannot lose consciousness because it is, in essence, who you are. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

“The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of our planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.”

“I'm not willing to live in a disenchanted universe”