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When you can allow all of yourself to
be there in a relationship with a partner,
a friend or a sibling, the love you feel
for each other is very strong. Their
acceptance acts like a temenos, a sacred
container for the difficult work of self-
acceptance. Trusting each other enough to
acknowledge our own imperfections and
the new awareness’s surfacing of patterns
that hurt us is descriptive of a process
where progressively we accept and can
love our many selves. This commitment
allows us both to move forward with a
stronger ability to subordinate our will to
the Self (God within) and make this goal
the supreme value of our lives.
In Ego & Archetype, Ed Edinger says,
“The connection between ego and Self
is vitally important to psychic health. It
gives foundation, structure and security
to the ego and also provides energy,
interest, meaning and purpose. When
the connection is broken the result is
emptiness, despair, meaninglessness and in
extreme cases psychosis or suicide.”
accountability. We both accept there are no
accidents and that life is about growth and We are cheating ourselves if we decide
change even if from time-to-time, we too we are always victims. Painful or
would like to forget what we now know to humiliating events, illness, accident,
be true as it’s not easy work. From direct divorce, job loss, whatever are outer
experience, we can attest that the divine manifestations of an inner unconscious
works in all things even if it isn’t always content that is circulating around to
pretty or positive. Life repeatedly gives us bring us to our own wholeness. As
technicolor mirrors of people we do not human beings, we go through difficult
like and incidents with the outer world to and sometimes shocking experiences
reveal what is still unconscious and in need that often repeat over a long period of
of redemption in our inner world. time when we have been stubbornly
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