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Repeating Patterns are
Feedback from the Cosmos
There is no one alive who cannot patterns would not be coming to us in an
relate to being stuck in a painful rut extreme form if we were not somehow,
or self-destructive pattern. This poem through our own attitude and behavior,
reminds us of the fact that inner states drawing them in.
of consciousness will be reflected back
to us through repetitive and circulatory Jung says,
situations that we encounter. Clearly, “To love someone else is easy, but to love
we cannot save others in circumstances what you are, the thing that is yourself, is
where they are not interested in saving just as if you were embracing a glowing
themselves and/or allow emotionally red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is
abusive or violent relationships to go very painful. Therefore, to love somebody
on. There can even be more benign else in the first place is always an escape
relationships that are just as hurtful which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it
where we are just plain out of balance in when we are capable of it.
giving and receiving; prone to attracting
takers, users or passive aggressive people But in the long run, it comes back on us.
who cannot be direct or honest. You cannot stay away from yourself forever,
you have to return, have to come to that
Events or relationships with the same experiment, to know whether you really can
people keep occurring so that we can love. That is the question— whether you can
see and potentially remove the blocks love yourself, and that will be the test.”
to becoming conscious of our own
opposites. This is not very easy to do — Carl G. Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra:
as for the most part, when something Notes of the Seminar, 1934-1939 Vol. 2,
happens, it’s much easier to assign blame pp. 1472-1474
for what occurs externally instead of
reflecting on retrieving our much needed It is challenging to live by our ideals
shadow side, i.e. our opposites. These indefinitely. We do really well for a few
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