Eva Rider Reclaiming Soul

via @womenofdepthpsychology Barbara Hannah on approaching one's unconscious: "It is not everyone’s fate to face the unconscious as completely as Jung did; such ...an exploration of it is a vocation and should never be undertaken unless it is approached for this reason. But there is never any guarantee, if we once start on this path, as to where it may lead us. Above all, it should never be undertaken without a firm relationship to someone who will understand, or at least sympathize, for it sometimes leads into such cold and inhuman depth that human companionship is absolutely necessary to prevent us from becoming entirely frozen and lost. Although it is essential to have a human companion in whom one can confide, the actual active imagination is a very individual and even lonely undertaking." -- Barbara Hannah, Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as developed by C.G. Jung. Artist: @penabranca https://www.instagram.com/womenofdepthpsychology/

CAMINO But your loss brought you here to walk under one name and one name only, and to find the guise under which all loss can live; ... Remember, you were given that name every day along the way, remember, you were greeted as such, and treated as such, and you needed no other name, other people seemed to know you even before you gave up being a shadow on the road and came into the light, even before you sat down, broke bread and drank wine, wiped the wind-tears from your eyes: pilgrim they called you again and again. Pilgrim. From ‘Camino’ From ‘Pilgrim: Poems by David Whyte’ 2013 Many River Press https://davidwhyte.com/collections/books/products/pilgrim Cam Gill Road. Photo David Whyte Yorkshire Dales February 11th 2019 ... We are constantly astonished to find, that fully one half of any life and any conversation is mediated through disappearance and loss, which means that most human beings, not quite believing that this could be true, are at war with reality at least half of our time on this earth. Making peace with this necessary and cyclical giving away in our moveable, transient, hardly touchable world, is not only to make peace with our very selves, but to further our journey along the pilgrim journey of generosity, of giving the gift which to begin with, is hidden even from ourselves. Our vitality is linked to our vulnerability, to our willingness to be undone as much as to do, to let go as much as to take on, to allow ourselves to be found as much as to seek, to find our arrivals in having made great departures, even against our seemingly conscious will. DW

People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you. Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen. J.G. Ballard Art by Chie Yoshii

with gratitude to Aurora Terrenus

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. George Eliot, Middlemarch Splendor Solis 1582 1st Treatise ... Salomon Trismosin See more

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. Robin Hobb

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark TwainIf you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain