Embracing Change: Old Sultan, pt. 1

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In this episode:
We begin to read through the tale, Old Sultan and to explore our need to learn to face the inevitable changes of life with creativity and courage.

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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. “In myths and fairytales, as in dreams, the psyche tells its own story..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.'
2. Episode 31: Remembering Wisdom
3. Old Sultan from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
4. Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1
5. Episode 15: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 2
6. Episode 16: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 3
7. Episode 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing
8. “The afternoon of life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
9. “In our technological age man could not conceive of this world as anything but material for his own fulfillment.”  ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man Is Not Alone.'
10. “A young man who does not fight and conquer has missed the best part of his youth, and an old man who does not know how to listen to the secrets of the brooks, as they tumble down from the peaks to the valleys, makes no sense..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
11. “The only thing to do is to accept the animal as a divine and secret mystery, a divine secret....” ~ Marie-Louise von Franz quoted in

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