"The original abandonment, the original abuse, the original horror has some reason and meaning in it. It is not senseless. It is not like being run down like a dog on the highway. Its meaning most often is the development of tremendous strength, tremendous power, tremendous intuition. And I will tell you frankly that most of the people who are the greatest healers living on the face of this earth are unmothered children. One of the great gifts of the unmothered child - and also the healer, and the writer and the musician and all those in the arts who live so close with their ear against the heartbeat of the archetypal unconscious - one of their strongest aspects is intuition."
"Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self."
"Jungian psychology is about feeling good when you feel bad."
This has to be the most succinct description I've ever heard of Jungian psychology and its most significant gift: that feeling bad is an occasion to feel compassion for yourself rather than shame. That there is never a reason to feel shame about anything because anything you've done was done for a reason that was the best reason at the time.
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