Carole

“the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”
― Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

“Through his researches, we now know that the individual psyche is not just a product of personal experience. It also has a pre-personal or transpersonal dimension which is manifested in universal patterns and images such as are found in all the world’s religions and mythologies.”
― Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

“The stirring up of conflict is a Luciferian virtue in the true sense of the word. Conflict engenders fire, the fire of affects and emotions, and like every other fire it has two aspects, that of combustion and that of creating light. On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes (omnes superfluitates comburit). But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.”
― C.G. Jung

“The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal.”
― Sonu Shamdasani, The Red Book: Liber Novus