COMFORT
There’s comfort in melancholy.
— Joni Mitchell, “Heijira”
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Quote of the day: COMFORT
July 15, 2010Quote of the day: SABOTEUR
July 10, 2010SABOTEUR
The Saboteur archetype may be the one most intimately connected to your ability to survive in the physical world. Fears of being without the basic needs in life – from food to home to a social and personal network – often provide this archetype with the power to haunt you. You can silence the Saboteur with acts of courage and by following your intuition. It serves you brilliantly as a gut instinct that directs you to take action based on hunches rather than on rational thought. To learn to experience that voice, you must respond to it. Only through response can you manifest the courage to expand your creative environment. Start with small choices, which may be life-transforming acts of will disguised as harmless impulses.
The core issue for the Saboteur is fear of inviting change into your life, change that requires responding in a positive way to opportunities to shape and deepen your spirit. Yet it is impossible to stop this process of change. Deep in your tissue, you know that having power and using it necessitates change.
— Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts
Quote of the day: OMENS
July 8, 2010OMENS
Always interpret every omen favorably.
— Angus Stocking
Quote of the day: VICTIM
July 6, 2010VICTIM
The core issue of the Victim is whether it’s worth giving up your own sense of empowerment to avoid taking responsibility for your independence…The primary objective of the Victim archetype is to develop self-esteem and personal power…To help direct your responses to all of your experiences and relationships, say “I am committed to my own empowerment. What choice can I make here that will serve my own empowerment?” Name the problem or threat you need to overcome and the power that you need to possess in order to do so. Keep your eye on the truth that everything and everyone in your life is there by Contract to assist in your spiritual maturation.
— Caroline Myss, “The Four Archetypes of Survival: Child, Victim, Prostitute, Saboteur”
Quote of the day: INITIATION
July 4, 2010INITIATION
It seems that it is only the recent West that has deemed it unnecessary to “initiate” young men. Otherwise, culture after culture felt that if the young man were not introduced to “the mysteries,” he would not know what to do with his pain and would almost always abuse his power. It looks like they were right.
— Richard Rohr
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