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“There is a way out of the labyrinth. Some men do escape the unconscious bonds to the Mother. They are liberated, not from Her, but from their submission to their own longing for rest and sanctuary. But only their daily courage and vigilance, their work on themselves, keeps them from slipping back.”

Change Courage Psychology

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go.”

Change Courage Psychology

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“He did everything he was supposed to do except live his own life, and he was full of rage.”

Psychology Sadness Living Rage

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

“I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of the wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance, long difficult repentance, realisation of life's mistake, and the freeing of oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”

Soul Poetry Change Psychology Illness

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“Thus the ambivalence of men toward the underworld. They are both fascinated and frightened. Back there lie the origins of healing, the sense, but also annihilation. So they fling the logs of fear and the chance for rapprochement passes.”

Fear Change Psychology Unconsciousness

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“He has achieved all he sought, fulfilled the expectations of his culture, but he knows he is a lost man. As Joseph Campbell expressed it, one can spend one's whole life climbing the ladder, only to realize that it had been placed against the wrong wall.”

Psychology Regret Living

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“He found it very difficult to acknowledge that the pattern of false idealization, ambivalence, rejection and abandonment was set up inside himself and projected onto every woman het met.”

Change Psychology Awareness Projection

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

“Our mythology is full of heroic adventures—mountains climbed, ogres fought, dragons defeated—but it takes even more courage for a man to speak his emotional truths.”

Men Change Psychology Emotional Wounds

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

“Every day we stand poised on the razor's edge of consciously suffering the world's wound. How great the temptation to hide in a cave or to sink into some comforting arms. Each morning the grinning gremlins of fear and lethargy return. It does not matter how boldly we sallied forth yesterday; they are back today and, not satisfied to nibble our toes, will gobble our souls if we let them. Thus, we have evolved elaborate ways to avoid the pain of further consciousness.”

Change Consciousness Psychology

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“The power of the invisible, ineluctable energy of the unconscious, is clearly seen in Joseph's dilemma. He had seen Her, his mother's, disappearing back, and from that single traumatic event had concluded that he could not count on Her.”

Change Psychology Trauma Unconsciousness

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“And if he does not know the answer he is at least asking the right questions [to himself].”

Change Psychology Introspection Questions

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“He has recovered the worth of his own soul's journey. His life takes on a new meaning and in his prayer, in the words of Kazantzakis, "is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector, these are the obstacles I found, this how I plan to fight tomorrow.”

Inspiration Change Psychology Journey

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“Traveller, you have come a long way led by that star. But the kingdom of the wish is at the other end of the night. May you fare well, /companero/; let us journey together joyfully Living on catastrophe, eating the pure light.”

Change Psychology Journey Companionship

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“To separate a child from the instinctual world requires a numinous construct at least as powerful as his urge to settle back into unconsciousness.”

Change Psychology

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“So the task is difficult, but it is far preferable to living forever under Saturn's shadow.”

Change Psychology

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken care of. We all are recovering children who project the dynamics of intrapsychic parent onto an institution, an ideology ...Growing up is ever more difficult because it requires letting go of old expectations of rescue and redemption. We are it; this is it; this is as good as it gets, and we better deal with it.”

Responsibility Growing Up Psychology Self Help Trauma Existentialism Human Development

Book:Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path

Source: Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path

“Where do you refuse to grow up, wait for certainty of wisdom before choosing, hope for solutions to emerge fully formed, expect rescue, or wait for a guru to make sense of it all for you?”

Responsibility Growing Up Psychology Self Help Trauma Existentialism Learned Helplessness

Book:On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions

Source: On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions

“He was to assume the burden of his journey, its pain and solitude. No one else, parent or tribe, could spare him that journey lest they also steal his capacity to fight for and achieve his full potential.”

Growth Psychology Journey Potential

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“Still, take away such physically charged images of identity, take away the wisdom of elders, take away the community of men, and one has the modern world.”

Wisdom Psychology Modern World Modern Society

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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“Nietsche once observed that the primary purpose of marriage was conversation. The purpose of a committed relationship, of which marriage is but one example, is not to take care of each other, to reinforce the parent-child complexes, but to grow through and with each other. Relationship is meant to be dialectical—soulful encounters that temper and enlarge.”

Relationships Marriage Psychology

Book:Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

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