Jenny Alexander > Quotes

“Jung called the Shadow ‘the seat of creativity’. Embracing the Shadow means opening yourself up to possibilities, letting go of fixed certainties about the Self and the world. It means engaging with complications and conflicts, which are necessary aspects of all creative work.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“I read, in a fascinating book by F David Peat called Blackfoot Physics, that although we in the West think of the brain as the seat of learning, in indigenous cultures it is the belly.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“cure his patients’ neuroses because ‘the illness is itself the cure’ and I could easily see how that would work with psychological symptoms.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“The call to dreams is a call to soul.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“We have to meet the world as if our ideas about it are real, but holding the knowledge that they are only ideas; to act as if we know, but tolerate the truth of not knowing.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“As Einstein said, knowledge is limited, but imagination is not.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“The more uncertain I have felt about myself,’ Jung said, ‘the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“I learnt that if you change the way you perceive a situation, you can change the way you feel about it, and changing the way you think in general, changes your experience of life.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“and more relaxed about living with uncertainty about the rest.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers

“The point about positive thinking, and later cognitive behavioural therapy, was that you could choose how you thought about life, and that how you thought about it changed not only your interpretation of what happened, but also the actual course of events.”
― Jenny Alexander, Writing in the House of Dreams: Creative Adventures for Dreamers and Writers