Al Owski’s Reviews > Invocation > Status Update

“We are always meeting ourselves in the places where we are stuck.”

“What allowed you to, as you say, "stitch yourself" together again? A synchronicity. Remember what Jung said about this? A synchronicity occurs when an outer event matches an inner reality. So, in my case, there was this moment back at my father's place a couple of weeks ago when the outer and inner merged in one magical instance and the union of the opposites happened in the outer world and the inner world.”

“Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.”

“Because the one task that the young feminine must learn at adolescence is to begin to integrate that part of her represented by the masculine. And the masculine does not kiss. It lays down boundaries. It says, "do not cross this line."... You know, the reason there is a marriage at the end of these tales is that it represents the union of the feminine and the masculine elements. ”

“Marie-Louise von Franz was the master interpreter of these tales, I mean she was a genius—I love her work. She said that she didn't want her students to memorize her lectures, but just to sit with the fairy tales and work through them because interpretation was an art which depended on the individual. She then said that a class where these interpretations are taking place is almost a confession.”

“Nothing ever changes within unless you are willing to pay the price. Some people would rather die than pay the price that changing a conscious attitude demands of you. And so they calcify until rigor mortis sets in.”

“Perfectionism is the curse of the masculine. Discernment is its highest expression.”

“By honouring the feeling function, which is very much devalued. Marie-Louise von Franz complained that the opponents of atomic plants in her day were belittled for using only "feeling arguments and no sensible, reasonable arguments." The implication was that any feeding value informed by empathy was nonsense. How do we build a functioning world when that is the case?" ”

“Now, with respect to the feminine/masculine divide, one of the key steps in the process of becoming ourselves is the inner marriage of these two qualities." ”

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