Everything as You as Everything

transformation through realization and embodiment of endless self similarity

‘Self-actualization’, a term used in humanistic and existential psychology, implies a bringing into actuality of something that has been a latent potentiality. The term ‘self-realization’ suggests a making real, or seeing as real, something that has been only a dream or a vague intuition. Similarly, Jung’s term ‘individuation’ refers on the one hand to developing individual consciousness, as distinct from mass consciousness, and on the other hand to becoming ‘un-divided’, or whole.

—Ralph Metzner, The Unfolding Self (via omnisvirtigris)

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A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

—Albert Einstein (via halfknots)

Remember and have faith in the wind that bends dandelion stems on overgrown highway dividers, then, on to part wheat fields like a proud mother does her baby’s hair. Out under the sun everything makes sense, even hunger and thirst and skeletal animals along mountain trails. That relationship won’t ever fail you. You have magnets in your chest. Open your heart, calm your mind and time will do the rest

—Jonathan Negus (via halfknots)

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

—Carl Jung (via tinyhands)

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We function under the fallacy (cogito ergo sum) that we are our thoughts and therefore must attend to them in order for them to be realized. To break your identification with your own thoughts is to achieve inner freedom.

—Ram Dass (via halfknots)