The Journey by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice – and the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to […]
Assagioli on Silence
‘…the true activity of one’s deepest being is often hidden beneath apparent inactivity, in the heart of silence. As in the world of nature, so in man every creative act, every original initiative and impulse, and every surge of life is produced in darkness, in quietness and in apparent immobility. Seeds germinate in the darkness, […]
Identity Crisis and Existential Choice
Sooner or later the personality strategy we adopted in childhood to survive our family circumstances becomes an obstacle to our further unfolding. And this inevitable leads to some kind of identity crisis, forcing us to look more consciously at what we have been doing to ourselves. In this way, identity crisis often marks the beginning […]