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Writing Creativity and Soul

by Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)

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— Jan 18, 2026 02:18PM

Jan 18, 2026 02:17PM

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, light

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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, growth, imagination, integration, light, mindfulness, shadow, wholeness

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“I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: darkness, death, depression, life, mental-issue, metal-illness, suicide

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“But ignoring something doesn't make it less real, y'know. Something isn't fiction just because you choose not to acknowledge it.”
― Steven T. Seagle, It's a Bird...

tags: ignorance, ignoring, ignoring-issues, ignoring-problems, ignoring-things, reality, reality-of-life

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