The Most Important Thing That We Can Do Is Not to Do Anything at All

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In this episode:
We talk about the value of letting things happen and why Jung felt it was essential for the task of individuation.

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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. 'The Integration of the Personality' by C.G. Jung.
2. 'Tao Te Ching,' Translated by Richard Wilhelm.
3. 'Some keep the Sabbath going to Church' by Emily Dickinson.
4. 'The Spiritual Life' by Evelyn Underhill.
5.  'The Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts.
6. 'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith.
7. 'The Cloud of Unknowing.'
8. 'Lost' by David Wagoner.
9. 'Oceans' by Juan Ramón Jiménez.
10. 'Love in the Void,' a collection of writings by Simone Weil.
11. 'Encounters with the Soul' by Barbara Hannah.
12. 'Visions Seminars' by C.G. Jung
13. Transformation Symbolism in the Mass  from 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung.

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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.