Category: Analytical Psychology
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Learning to Swim
Trust: A Cornerstone of Faith To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Alan Watts How to Find Purpose in Life What does it mean to let go and…
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Echo & Narcissus – Perceptions of Self Development Amongst Social Egocentrism
The Myth Within Podcast Summary In today’s episode, Dr. Tom continue his exploration of the mythological characters Echo and Narcissus from a lens of social and cultural egocentrism and its effect on personal development. — This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thomas-maples8/message
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Finding Purpose
Words of Wisdom As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. ~ Carl Jung A Philosophy of Purpose What would the field of psychology be without that ever-nagging pull for people to kindle a light from the meaning…
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Greatness in Responsibility
Words of Wisdom You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill Greatness in Responsibility Where has the responsibility gone? As I see so much screaming about rights, what is right, and privileges people feel entitled to, I cannot help but think, where…
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The Sum of Small Efforts
Words of Wisdom Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier Philosophical Food for Thought What can be achieved with just small efforts, day in and day out?It takes millennia for water to chip away at rocks. But it does! Just look at the magnificence of the…
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The Will to Persevere
Words of Wisdom Philosophical Food for Thought Far too often, we fear failure. But there is beauty to be found in failing forward. You see, failure is a mindset. It doesn’t happen to us; we create success by perception, self-talk, and willingness to persevere. While this is known as a core principle of developing a…
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Ashes once Past
Inspirational Words of Wisdom Tending the Garden Within There is beauty in simplicity, wouldn’t you agree? Yet, with all the light, we can never know it without the complexity of its opposite. Even God created light from the void of darkness. Shadows follow where light prevails. Their place, to be leftover remnants of some blocking…
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Success Is… Repetition of the Small Things
Words of Inspiration Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier A Philosophy of Psychology Want Success? Form great habits, repeat day in and day out, let go of expectations, especially as it relates to time, and reap the rewards. What are your success habits. Namaste, my…
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Sewing Peace
Inspirational Quotes Philosophical Food for Thought It is far too easy to get caught in the winds of change. In the whirling nature of what constitutes life itself, we often forget that the seedlings of peace begin in the space that separates our ears, eyes, and nose from our mouth. What blessings may happen if…
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The Will to Engage
Words of Wisdom Engaging the Improbable As a child, I remember the images of angelic and devilish characters popping up on the shoulders of such antagonists as Tom the cat, from the hit cartoon Tom and Jerry, or the same ideals of conscience in action occurring to Disney’s very own beloved pup, Pluto. However, as…
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Stillness of Mind
Words of Wisdom Finding Stillness Wake up. Wake up, young one. It’s time to wake up. There is all this business, but to what end? Lao Tzu gives us a basic philosophy here, but its depths reach far beyond the fallibility of human rationale. They touch upon the imaginal, that realm where all possibility exists,…
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The Garden Within
Entering the Secret Garden Carl Jung once said, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Often, when we look inside the psyche, we find cold desert nights, where wastelands of unrealized dreams or under-realized potential hold us back from engaging that dream we yearn to see come to fruition. However, this need not be…