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Indigo Habel's avatar

Really loved what you said here:

"To participate in the perpetually unfolding creativity of existence, each individual has no choice but to struggle at times with doubt and seemingly irreconcilable opposites. It’s only through this struggle that something new can be born. The transcendent third. The previously unknown middle way. The choice that is not only this nor only that."

This is so, so important. More and more, it seems to me that what is most deeply true usually lives in and emerges from the space of paradox. The more we refuse to explore paradox — that two "seemingly irreconcilable opposites" could, somehow, coexist — the more we risk surrendering ourselves to increasingly extreme, zero-sum perspectives.

Such a great essay.

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Vibushan Sivakumaran's avatar

Great piece Satya.

This portion felt synchronous.

As Jung came to understand human psychology beyond behaviorism, he identified the core dictate of human nature to be individuation. In essence: follow your own path. Life is a creative act, and rigid precepts—be they religious, cultural, or political—prevent people from living vivid, vibrant lives. Our souls become so tied up in the strings and shackles of right and wrong that we become as frozen as the dogmas themselves. The feminine, Eros, creativity, and the animal-body become alienated and oppressed. Like rivers corralled by cement walls, life can’t find its organic route and people meet their deathbeds feeling restless and unfulfilled.

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