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Some words of wisdom from Carl
Jung.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To
become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of
self-knowledge.
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results,
and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the
darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of
darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
I was born, I am living and some day I'll die. Hopefully as a result of some bizarre incident involving a guppy, three nuns and a lemon juicer.
Taking satisfaction in things like someone absently 'touching wood' in a conversation to invoke good luck or throwing coins in a fountain/wishing well. Especially when they are blissfully unaware of what they are actually doing. It's even funnier to catch a Christian doing it... But hey, that's just me.
If there was a way off this planet or out of
this world without having to die to get there, you wouldn't see me for dust. You might hear a faint yee-ha! as I vanished over the horizon though. If you
listened very carefully.
*Sigh*
Why can't men like
this exist in real life? Everything would be so much more fun.