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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 6h

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” ~ Miguel de Unamuno, Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho

Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 7h

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. . . [T]he idea came to him of what he called “the love of your fate.” Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge.~Joseph Campbell

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11h

"The inescapable truth of any relationship is that it can achieve no higher level of development than the level of maturity that both parties bring to it." ~James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Emotions need your direct involvement. They don’t need to be felt forever, or obsessively, but just long enough to have their say. When they know that you’ve really got the message, they disappear. If you don’t get the message, however, they stick around and wreak havoc." ~Raphael Cushnir

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“There are not many truths, there are only a few. Their meaning is too deep to grasp other than in symbols.”~CG Jung, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every spoken word betrays us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.~Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being conscious gives you the chance to change yourself, if you want to. When you are conscious, your ego can choose your actions. It is up to you to continue acting as you were acting or to change yourself.~Roberto Lima Netto, Juliana Lima Netto, The Jungian Bible

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Longing is what turns us inside out until we find the sun and the moon and stars inside.~Peter Kingsley

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Perhaps the object of life is not to be successful, or to be happy, but to discern and serve that which is worthy of our service.~James Hollis, Living with Borrowed Dust

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jung believes that alcoholism and drug addiction, for instance, have become such huge problems because we look in vain to drugs to deliver a transcendence that normal life can no longer provide.~David Tacey

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself.~Michael Singer

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unless I am able to analyze the unconscious aspects of the society in which I live, I cannot know who I am, because I don’t know which part of me is not me.~Erich Fromm, The Art of Being

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meeting the shadow in ourselves is disquieting because it tears holes in our masks. It causes us to act irrationally and feel ashamed, embarrassed, unacceptable, regretful—and to quickly deny responsibility for what we said or did.~Connie Zweig

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Grief is not an abstraction. You can’t think your way through it. You have to have a physical encounter with it. It’s a bodily experience. We need to feel the tightness in our chest or belly before we can engage with it meaningfully.”~Francis Weller

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o’-the-wisps.~CG Jung, Symbols of Transformation

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.” ~Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.~Rumi, Selected Poems [Translated by Coleman Barks]

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unless I am able to analyze the unconscious aspects of the society in which I live, I cannot know who I am, because I don’t know which part of me is not me.~Erich Fromm, The Art of Being

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Of all these hauntings, the greatest is the one we alone produce: the unlived life. None of us will find the courage, or the will, or the capacity to completely fulfill the possibility invested in us by the gods. But we are also accountable for what we do not attempt. ~James Hollis, Hauntings

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The senses are the sacramental instruments that we’ve been given. It’s all here. Here we have everything we need—we don’t have to go looking for extraordinary rituals. We are just given, everywhere, right now. Every sound is an opportunity to be conscious. It’s the cosmos calling." ~Peter Kinglsey

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The ongoing curriculum of life does not demand that we avoid suffering; it asks instead that we live more meaningfully in the face of it." ~James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It isn’t the current story line that’s the root of our pain; it’s our propensity to be bothered in the first place.~Pema Chodron, Living Beautifully

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What the creative person and the mad person have in common is that they are not confined to a single self located in the ego, but their subjectivity extends across a spectrum of possibilities.~David Tacey, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Over time, Jung concluded that there was within each of us a deep resilience guided by some locus of knowing, independent of ego consciousness; a center that produces our dreams to correct us, symptoms to challenge us, and visions to inspire us.~James Hollis, 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘴

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.~Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows that there is a problem. There is general discontent with our way of life but almost no one knows specifically where to look for its origin.~Robert A. Johnson

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can give another person a precious gift if you will allow him to talk without contaminating his speech with your own material.~ Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Accepting new consciousness requires devotion, courage of the heart in the spirit of life, the willingness to accept suffering and despair, and our enduring the cycle of transformation.”~Bud Harris

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Nothing kills the symbolic life so quickly as words reduced to mere information or mindless chatter.”~Helen Luke, The Way of Woman

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I like to quote Harry Truman, who said, “I don’t give people hell, I just tell them the truth and they think it’s hell.” Jungian psychology flies in the face of the “five easy steps to happiness” and the whole self-help industry.~James Hollis

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

[I]n any contest between the conscious and the unconscious, it is the unconscious which usually wins. Unconscious aims and urges are more powerful than conscious ones, because they operate surreptitiously, so we unwittingly find ourselves at their mercy.~Liz Greene

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People who are intoxicated by some creative effort should be warned that the only safe creativity is that which makes one feel uncomfortable. If one feels burdened down with every sentence one writes...then one is safe and not in danger of falling, one is already down.~Edward Edinger

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The history of Western man can be viewed as a history of its God-images, the primary formulations of how mankind orients itself to the basic questions of life, its mysteries”.~Edward Edinger

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery… in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.”~Richard Rohr, Falling Upward

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"[T]he kind of conscience that Jung described does not make for popular reading, because putting in into practice demands the utmost integrity and willingness to suffer." ~Barbara Hannah, Jung

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whatever we fight about in the outside world is also a battle in our inner selves. Anyone who can admit this will first seek the solution in himself, and this in fact is the way all the great solutions begin.~CG Jung, Collected Works, Volume 18

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"It is both notable and grievous that chaos retained its connection with order, but lost its more vital relationship with love. Surely this is no accident. [L]ove is dangerous and so is chaos. Each evokes the image of the numinous..."~Veronica Goodchild, Order and Chaos

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“God” is a metaphor for what wholly transcends our capacity to comprehend, expressed through primal forces which we nonetheless experience. ~James Hollis, Mythologems

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.~James Hillman

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stop trying. Stop forcing reality. Learn the mystery of surrender and trust, and then it will be done unto you, through you, with you, in you and very often, in spite of you.~Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Your craving for security creates fear and it is fear that yields to the oppression of authority; fear forces you not how to think but what to think. Only in freedom from fear is there the discovery of the real." ~J. Krishnamurti, The Observer Is the Observed

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"It is our capacity to be profoundly moved by each other that makes us whole." Marc Ian Barasch, The Compassionate~ Life

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As Jung put it, we are “as much possessed by [our] pathological states as any witch or witch-hunter in the darkest Middle Ages . . . In those days they spoke of the Devil, today we call it a neurosis.”~James Hollis, Hauntings

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All men [humans] are liars, certainly. I just let them sit in that chair and lie till they get tired of lying. Then they begin to tell the truth.~CG Jung

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"[T]he worst and most pervasive [prejudice] is overt or implicit statistical thinking: “What I do makes no difference; I’m just one grain of sand among millions; my existence is a meaningless accident.” This mindset is direct and deadly poison for the soul."~Marie-Louise von Franz, Psychotherapy

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.~Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul

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