I wanted to write something about how short life is, and that we should beware of just
repeating the same old patterns that get us stuck and waste our time. Then I read this
paragraph. Nothing more to add...
"Only the person who has reached a substantial level of maturity can acknowledge this
paradox, that he or she now is the enemy. One needs to reach at least the middle years
before one can take on the immensity of this project. One needs to have made projections
onto the outer world - career, relationships, social roles - and suffered their insufficiency;
one needs to have made enough mistakes to begin to see a pattern; one needs to have
attained a strong enough ego to dare look within for the source of one's choices. Only then
does one have the experience, and the courage, to sort through, to differentiate, the
unconscious causal factors and then to make a break for a new life"
James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul - New Life in Dismal Places. 1996.
Jean Cooper
repeating the same old patterns that get us stuck and waste our time. Then I read this
paragraph. Nothing more to add...
"Only the person who has reached a substantial level of maturity can acknowledge this
paradox, that he or she now is the enemy. One needs to reach at least the middle years
before one can take on the immensity of this project. One needs to have made projections
onto the outer world - career, relationships, social roles - and suffered their insufficiency;
one needs to have made enough mistakes to begin to see a pattern; one needs to have
attained a strong enough ego to dare look within for the source of one's choices. Only then
does one have the experience, and the courage, to sort through, to differentiate, the
unconscious causal factors and then to make a break for a new life"
James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul - New Life in Dismal Places. 1996.
Jean Cooper
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