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In this episode:
We discuss solitude, and the vital importance it plays in supporting our engagement with life and with the world.
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For more on living a symbolic life:
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Sources for quotes and more:
- “I understand your wish very well, but must tell you at once that it does not fit in with my situation...." ~ C.G. Jung, in 'Letters, Vol II.'
- “It seems to me that what goes on in the human being when he is by himself is as important as what happens in his interactions with other people…. ~ Anthony Storr in 'Solitude: A Return to the Self.'
- 'Already the ripening barberries are red' -- poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke in 'Letters to a Young Poet.'
- “We each inhabit our own separate world...” ~ Edward Edinger in 'Ego and Archetype.'
- "The development of personality from the germ-state to full consciousness is at once a charisma and a curse..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Development of the Personality, in 'Collected Works, vol. 17.'
- 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
- 'Forest Lake' -- poem by Edith Sӧdergran
- “No one yet has made a list of places where the extraordinary may happen and where it may not...." ~ Mary Oliver in 'Upstream.'
- “the world from which we draw our wisdom, our lucidities, our power to act, our courage, is in this other world... " ~ Anaïs Nin in 'In Favor of the Sensitive Man: And Other Essays.'
- 'Is my soul asleep' -- poem by Antonio Machado.
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