We can only really grasp the importance of breath control if we realize the fact that every sexual union imitates breathing, that is to say, the rhythmical union of the breath with the lungs. Every breath we draw is an act as life-giving as
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“Jung, in this advice to Roland, was encouraging him to submit himself to a spiritual principle that would replace the ego as the center of his consciousness and to seek a transcendent center—which many call God, some call the Universe, Jungians call the Self, and A.A. refers to as the Higher Power.”
― The War Of The Gods In Addiction: C. G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Archetypal Evil
― The War Of The Gods In Addiction: C. G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Archetypal Evil
“My claim is that a poetic sensibility inclines us to the language of soul and awakens us to the mystery, ambiguity, subtlety, and the strange and awesome elusive epiphanies of the multi-leveled layers of psychological life as they display themselves in the world.”
― Leaning Toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life
― Leaning Toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life
“You”
― Spiritual Diary
― Spiritual Diary
“Our real past is something very mysterious and no doubt impossible to wholly reconstruct. What can be reconstructed”
― Father-Daughter, Mother-Son: Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes That Bind Us
― Father-Daughter, Mother-Son: Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes That Bind Us
“And He is near also to you”
― Spiritual Diary
― Spiritual Diary
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