Psychologist Jerry Ruhl talks about the value of Jungian Dream Groups for interpreting dreams.
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people’s problems as our own.
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.