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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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“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
“The reasons for the differences between the hesitant and the emerging mystic are speculative. It could be that those who give attention to that dimension do so because of developmental issues and resultant complexes, perhaps as a reaction to overwhelming trauma, or even arising from a deep pathology. It also could be, more benevolently (and, in my view, more accurately), an inexplicable higher-order calling, an innate aesthetic subtlety, and a consequent desire for the refinement of consciousness. This”
― Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts
― Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts
“And He is near also to you”
― Spiritual Diary
― Spiritual Diary
“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
“The reasons for the differences between the hesitant and the emerging mystic are speculative. It could be that those who give attention to that dimension do so because of developmental issues and resultant complexes, perhaps as a reaction to overwhelming trauma, or even arising from a deep pathology. It also could be, more benevolently (and, in my view, more accurately), an inexplicable higher-order calling, an innate aesthetic subtlety, and a consequent desire for the refinement of consciousness. This may be brought on spontaneously or even by a momentary glimpse of that which touches the spirit, a vague hint that there may be that exciting, yet remote possibility of a more expansive reception to that mystery.”
― Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts
― Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts
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