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Ethics
Sunbeams
April 1992He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will revolutionize the world.
Mastering The Enemy Within
An Interview With Richard Strozzi-Heckler
My idea of a new warrior is one who takes on the challenge of facing his or her own aggression — mentally, physically, emotionally. The point is not to say that aggression is bad, but to recognize that it is within us, and to learn how to look at it and train it.
November 1990What The Shadow Knows
An Interview With John Sanford
The Jungian definition of the shadow was put well by Edward C. Whitmont, a New York analyst, who said that the shadow is “everything that has been rejected during the development of the personality because it did not fit into the ego ideal.” If you were raised a Christian with the ego ideal of being loving, morally upright, kind, and generous, then you’d have to repress any qualities you found in yourself that were antithetical to the ideal: anger, selfishness, crazy sexual fantasies, and so on. All these qualities that you split off would become the secondary personality called the shadow. And if that secondary personality became sufficiently isolated, you would become what’s known as a multiple personality.
June 1990Sunbeams
February 1990Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.
In The Spirit Of Philosophy
An Interview With Jacob Needleman
The more you realize what it actually means to be awake, the more alive all your functions will be. New thoughts, new visions, and new insights come to you, and those can be seductive; so you have to remember that awareness is the vehicle for all of them. That’s why the great spiritual traditions tell us not to get swept away even if someone like the Buddha appears to us; the smart thing may be to tell him to go away. It’s your own consciousness that counts. That’s the Buddha-nature within you.
June 1989Duty
A rhinestone butterfly pin, an appointment for next Saturday, “Louie Louie”
March 1989Sunbeams
September 1985Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learned to walk.
A Simpler Life
Wrapping things up, being a post-menopausal woman, seeing the northern lights
August 1985
