It’s a phenomenon that I’ve often observed without understanding it. Inside someone, another person may exist, a fully formed, generous and trustworthy individual who never comes to light except in glimpses, because he is surrounded by a corrupt, dyed-in-the-wool, repeat offender. ~Peter Hoeg
posted on 12-21-11 at 2:13 pm in Selfhood
I discovered Karen Horney serendipitously. One of her book was left behind at the laundry mat. I picked it up and my life has never been the same. Flash forward 20 years and her words, despite the literary gender bias of the times, are as fresh and challenging today as they were fifty years ago. This following quote captures her exuberant faith [Read More...]
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posted on 12-12-11 at 6:53 am in Selfhood
Few now accept the tabula rasa view of human psychology. Within each infant is a life force, innate aspects, that guide motives and meaning making. Carl Jung called our innate guiding systems archetypes. Archetypes influence the unfolding of development. Jung postulated that humans, as an evolved species, inherit specific dispositions and that these predispositions serve to [Read More...]
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posted on 11-02-10 at 7:02 am in Selfhood
It’s your choice. The key to becoming the person you want to be, first and foremost, is believing that you can. Think you’re messy? Plain? Shy? Forget the old notions you’ve had about yourself and uncover the real you. Stop that thought. The minute you hear yourself saying anything limiting about who you are or what [Read More...]
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posted on 10-19-10 at 7:20 am in Selfhood
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman In a previous entry (“Our Many Selves”), the many parts that exist within each of us was introduced. In addition [Read More...]
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posted on 08-10-10 at 7:05 am in Selfhood
As a child, you were pure, wide-eyed and open to the world. Slowly, over time, you internalized both the positive and negative voices around you. As we get older, the negative voices echo the loudest. So your first step is to reconnect with the kid in you who felt confident early on. To do this, find [Read More...]
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posted on 07-13-10 at 7:28 am in Selfhood
Nothing about human life is simple. Our character styles, or ways of being, are influenced by many factors that are embodied, being shaped by, and in turn shaping the body structure. Our character is like a set of clothes that we put on to protect us from the elements, to hide what is underneath, to give [Read More...]
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posted on 05-04-10 at 7:26 am in Selfhood
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) ~ Walt Whitman Multiplicity It is the nature of the human mind to be subdivided into parts. We all have them. We are born with them. Carl Jung referred to them as archetypes. Others refer to them as subpersonalities, aspects, thoughts [Read More...]
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posted on 12-21-09 at 7:22 am in Selfhood
In The Four Agreements don Miguel Ruiz offers four deceptively simple principles to live by. Keeping these four agreements can be one of the hardest things you will ever do and one of the most life changing. The Four Agreements are: 1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak [Read More...]
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