It is the last half of the ninth inning and John is trying to preserve a one run lead with a runner on every base and only one out. As he focuses on the catcher’s mitt the players on the opposing team try to rattle him and break his concentration. They yell and taunt. They…
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that lives above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the bloom, which passes. The rhizome remains.” (Carl Jung, from the prologue of Memories, Dreams, Reflections) In…
The bluesman said, “The soul of the modern American wanders through a desert in search of water, while his ego dines on plastic food and splashes about in a child’s pool, pretending it’s the ocean.” And then he paused, his gaze piercing the heart of those present. “Chances are your soul is starving. It’s hard…
It seems we all have a mountain to climb. It is the mountain of our soul, our destiny, our life’s work. It is the mountain within, and many of us may not even realize that we are climbing it. On the other hand, there are some that know it’s there, but choose not to climb…
Too often you get used to living small when you ought to be living big. For whatever reason you decide it’s ok to be less than who you really are. Perhaps you settle for the answers of others rather than those that come from your own experience and soul. Maybe you convince yourself that you…
“Why do these philosophers pretend that God is an idea, a kind of arbitrary assumption which they engender, when its perfectly plain that he exists, as plain as a brick that falls on your head? Suddenly I understood that God was, for me at least, one of the most certain and immediate experiences.” Carl Jung…
Although the Sierra Nevada gold rush played itself out some 150 years ago, opportunities to harvest gold still abound. There are rich deposits yet to be mined, and they are closer than the ground beneath your feet. This gold lies within you, and it longs to be unearthed. The world calls out for a new…
Behind your eyes lies the soul. And the eyes may see one thing but the soul sees another. Behind the mind is the soul. They are not the same and often have very different viewpoints. The mind thinks that it is in charge. Some minds do not even acknowledge the existence of the soul. The…
It is easy to forget that there is a war going on. I don’t mean the wars in other countries. I mean the war right here beneath your feet, in your home, and against your soul. A battle of good and evil underlies your life, and the stance you take towards it will be crucial…
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” Carl Jung In my post, Growing Through Depression, I explained how depression often represents an opportunity ripe for the transformation and growth of the personality. Depression can be fruitfully treated when…