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Lil is finished with Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery
"...then does the possibility of mature love exist. If one person is in love and the other not, the cooler one is likely to say, 'We would have something better between us if you would look at me rather than at your image of me.'"

Mandorlas reveal the place where light and dark meet--the almond section of two partially overlapping circles.

Religion, when defined using Latin roots, means "to bind together again."
Nov 30, 2025 06:14AM Add a comment
Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery

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Lil is on page 129 of 130 of Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery
"One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. If two people are in love, they tread on star dust for a time and live happily ever after--that is so long as this experience of divinity has obliterated time for them. Only when they come down to earth do they have to look at each other realistically and only..."
Nov 30, 2025 06:11AM Add a comment
Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery

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Lil is on page 75 of 130 of Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery
Re: burnout: "I told him he...would have to contact the unlived shadow if he wished to find a new vitality...His involuntary swearing had been a good start. Correctly handled, this would lead to a new source of creativity and give him a new lease on life. Stupidly handled, it would lead only to destruction, and to the loss of form and structure. Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness."
Nov 30, 2025 06:09AM Add a comment
Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery

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Lil is on page 85 of 224 of Nature, Man and Woman
"To the mind which pursues every road to its end, every road leads nowhere. To abstain is not to postpone the cold disillusionment of the true facts but to see that one arrives by staying rather than going, that to be forever looking beyond is to remain blind to what is here."
Nov 30, 2025 06:02AM Add a comment
Nature, Man and Woman

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Lil is on page 29 of 224 of Nature, Man and Woman
"The evil of man far exceeds the evil of the spider or the shark, but only because the goodness of man immeasurably exceeds the goodness of a spring landscape. One has only to consider how cold and desolate the fairest face of nature can seem to a man left utterly alone, willing to exchange the whole sum of natural beauty for a single human face."
Nov 09, 2025 06:35AM Add a comment
Nature, Man and Woman

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Lil is on page 98 of 320 of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time." -Milan Kundera
Aug 02, 2025 03:08PM Add a comment
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

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