“Jung wrote, “… the experience of the Self is always a defeat for the ego.” Indeed, in those initiations by illness, loss or depression, when we are dragged into the underworld to pass through the gates of intensifying vulnerability, we are being stripped of our outer world clothing, prepared for to meet the indwelling Divine.”
Recently discovered the author Toko-pa Turner and really loving her words:
The difference between fitting in and belonging is that fitting in, by its very definition, is to parcel off our wholeness in exchange for acceptance.
Toko-pa Turner
It isn't enough to hear the call of our destiny; we must also cast out a story for ourselves, lest we be swept along by the one the world casts for us.
Toko-pa Turner
"There are many practices that can stimulate our reconnection to the instinctual self. Anything that involves us with the natural world—like digging in the dirt, walking in the woods, learning ancestral skills, eating food we’ve foraged or grown, and hanging out with undomesticated animals— can mirror for us how to get back to our own animal bodies.
Toko-pa Turner