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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 7h

My whole psychology is such that it can be accepted only by someone who is ready for it.~CG Jung, CG Jung Collected Letters, Volume 1

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 22h

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important.~CG Jung

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat. [A]ll poems are an attempt to say the unsayable; but only a few are able to speak to something universal yet personal and distinct at the same time.~David Whyte

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Nothing is more poisonous to the nervous system than a disregarded or checked creative impulse. It even destroys people's organic health.~CG Jung

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.”~Federico Garcia Lorca

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We quite forget that we can be as deplorably overcome by a virtue as by a vice. There is a sort of frenzied, orgiastic virtuousness which is just as infamous as a vice and leads to just as much injustice and violence. ~CG Jung

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.~Helen Luke

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

All people who claim to be spiritual try to get away from the fact of the body; they want to destroy it in order to be something imaginary, but they never will be that, because the body denies them; the body says otherwise.~CG Jung

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We can touch in with bodhichitta by simply allowing ourselves to experience our own raw feelings, without getting sucked into our thoughts and stories about them.~Pema Chodron, Welcoming the Unwelcome

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Projection is the way the psyche reaches out to someone or something new. Jung says that “everyone creates for himself a series of more or less imaginary relationships based essentially on projection.” Every new relationship in some way involves projection.~Robin Robertson

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Three things differentiate living from the soul versus living from ego only. They are: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.— Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés,"Women Who Run With the Wolves"

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For the king knows that in order to dominate other cultures, you must capture not only their lands, crops and assets but also their collective imagination, their shared memories.~Elif Shafak, There are Rivers in the Sky

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Jung was more interested in where a person's life was leading him, rather than the supposed causes of his situation.~Andrew Samuels

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Don’t try to better than you are, otherwise the devil gets angry. Don’t try to be worse because God gets angry. Try to be what you are, that is acrobatics enough.~CG Jung, Visions Seminar

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We must be whole whether we like it or not; the only choice is whether we will incorporate the shadow consciously and with some dignity or do it through some neurotic behaviour.~Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Shadow

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

Whenever one finds himself in a state of conflict with someone or with a situation, he should entertain the hypothesis that the psyche has propelled him into that situation in order to generate consciousness.~Edward Edinger

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

[O]ne of the greatest losses we have is the loss of a symbolic life, a life informed by mythology in the most noble sense of the world, which gives meaning and depth to life and is an antidote against banality...~Bernardo Kastrup [in conversation with Iain McGilchrist]

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You seek the path. I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you. May each go his own way. ~CG Jung

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I find I need to be reminded every once in a while myself.

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You will someday see there is no use for incessant internal chatter and no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out. Eventually you will see the real cause of problems is not life itself. It’s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes problems.~Michael Singer

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More from Anne Carson: 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯, 𝘢 𝘵𝘸𝘰-𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦.

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words. But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place.~CG Jung, 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 1

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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 · 08/10/2026

Jung said to me: "You can't analyze people really if you don't know how they live. If you haven't gotten a whiff of the country in which they live, if you haven't gotten a feeling of the atmosphere in which they normally live, you can't understand them."~Marie Louise von Franz

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thrilled to hear Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize for Literature 🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Jung understated the case when he said, "We have in all naivete forgotten that beneath our world of reason another lies buried. I do not know what humanity will still have to undergo before it dares to admit this.""~Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams, Meeting The Shadow

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The unconscious constantly uses masculine-feminine dichotomy to symbolize interplay of the inner forces that must balance and complete one another. They may appear as hostile opposites yet they are destined to make a synthesis, for they are two facets of one stream of energy.~Robert A. Johnson

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Nirvana is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, and social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out of that."~Joseph Campbell

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires. It is never a mistake to search for what one requires.~Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women who Run with the Wolves

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.~ Erich Fromm, 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧: 𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yearning for others’ accomplishments is a way of avoiding the hard work of developing one’s own potential. What one desires in others is an unlived aspect in oneself that needs attending. — Rose-Emily Rothenberg, “The Jewel in the Wound”

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

According to the Taoists, yang and yin, light and shadow, useful and useless are all different aspects of the whole, and the minute we choose one side and block out the other, we upset nature's balance.~Connie Zweig

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have sometimes been awestruck at the mysterious and incomprehensible way in which people find each other from opposite ends of the earth whose complexes are so beautifully matched...~Liz Greene (Or as the British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan put it: ‘We seek the teeth to match our wounds.’)

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jung reconnected the solar consciousness of the rational mind w/ the lunar consciousness of the instinctual soul, so healing the dissociation in the psyche & restoring to Western culture in a modern context the shamanic way of knowing that has been increasingly lost over some 4000 years.~Anne Baring

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, the mind is brilliant, but the more we observe it, the more we see it is also obsessive and repetitive.~Richard Rohr, The Naked Now

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

Jung said, "Every part of us we do not love will regress and become more primitive." He didn't say, "Indulge it," or even, "Indulge in it." He said, "Accept that part," and he's right to say that." ~Robert Bly, A Little Book on the Human Shadow

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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 · 03/10/2026

"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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