“If we turn our backs on something because it is difficult to understand and indignantly refer to it as “inhuman,” we will never be able to learn anything about its nature. The risk will then be greater, when we next encounter it, of once again aiding and abetting it by our innocence and naivete.”
“If [...]
Archive for August, 2007
“For Your Own Good” by Alice Miller
Posted in Child Psychology, General Psychology on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Little Gidding” by T.S. Eliot
Posted in Moments of beauty on August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in [...]
“The Not-Yet-Transformed God” by Janet O. Dallett
Posted in Jungian Psychology on August 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The words have a glorious ring to them but the reality, when the work is done right, is extremely demanding. It requires a person to face and take responsibility for everything she is, conscious and unconscious, while seeing and differentiating herself from everything she is not. This is painful, grinding, grungy, often depressing [...]
