dark night
Denial of our negativity only feeds this fear of ourselves and hence undermines self-esteem. We deny or rationalize our lower self out of fear that this is all we are. In each of us is a rock bottom fear that we are, in essence, bad or hopeless or unlovable. And we fear that seeing our despair or our badness will bring about our annihilation. This
... See moreEva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
Deepening our dharma and healing our karma co-inform each other. Every gift has a shadow, every shadow has a gift – it’s helpful to explore them together.
Daniel Schmachtenberger • Dharma Inquiry - Daniel Schmachtenberger
Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly… No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
— Pat Barker
— Pat Barker
scary as hell but also beautiful
However, what is less known is that we can also project buried talents and positive qualities onto others. Jung called this the ‘Golden Shadow,’ which contains the creative potential and greatness in ourselves that we are unable to see (except in other people), perhaps because we were shamed for these qualities or maybe because owning them would be... See more
Kirsten Powers • How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone but Especially Elizabeth Gilbert
The Chinese symbol for crisis 危机 is composed of two elements: one signifies danger and the other opportunity.
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
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