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“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
Carl Jung

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Consider this, what you have written down is some hidden part of yourself – some part that you have suppressed or hidden. It is what Carl Jung would call your shadow. Maybe it’s a part of you that you fear, can’t accept, or hate for some reason. Maybe it’s a part of you that needs to be expressed or developed in some way. Maybe you even secretly wish you could be something like that person whom you hate.

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How many friends or romantic partners do you have who fit the description of the “hated” person? The exercise always leads to an interesting exploration on how we project suppressed parts of ourselves onto others, and about why we sometimes choose these “hated” people for our close relationships.

Here are some Shadow Self related quotes to consider …

“Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.”

“To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.”

“Shadow work leads to a practice I refer to as the pursuit of the unhypocritical life, which some might call living with integrity.”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

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But it’s great.

Heart Mind Spirit.

…to a friend who had suffered the loss of a young child:

Dear Adam,

I am sorry you are so miserable. “Depression” means literally “being forced downward.” This can happen even when you don’t consciously have any feeling at all of being “on top.” So I wouldn’t dismiss this hypothesis out of hand … 

I would seek out one or two people who seemed amiable and would make myself useful to them … I would raise animals and plants and find joy in their thriving. I would surround myself with beauty —- no matter how primitive and artless —- objects, colors, sounds. I would eat and drink well. 

When the darkness grows denser, I would penetrate to its very core and ground, and would not rest until amid the pain an light appeared to me, for in excessu affectus Nature reverses herself. I would turn in rage against myself and with the heat of my rage I would melt my lead. I would renounce everything and engage in the lowest activities should my depression drive me to violence. I would wrestle with the dark angel until he dislocated my hip. For he is also the light and the blue sky which he withholds from me. 

Anyway, that is what I would do. What others would do is another question, which I cannot answer. But for you too there is an instinct either to back out of it or to go down to the depths. But no half-measures or half-heartedness.

With cordial wishes,
As ever, C.G.Jung

Heart Mind Spirit

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