#daryl sharp

[dk-thrive]

The persona protects our privacy and most people aren't interested in who we really are anyway.

[M]ost of us have developed a persona to deal with the world. We have a conventional mask. It helps us get along with other people. There's nothing wrong with that, it's a convenient social fiction. For instance, I know your occupations, but what else are you? What's your motivation for being here? I imagine that's more important than your social position. The persona protects our privacy and most people aren't interested in who we really are anyway. There's only a problem when we identify with the persona-when we come to believe that's all we are. Then the shadow steps in. "No", says the shadow, "I'm here too, you are also this". Then we get clobbered by the opposite.

— Daryl Sharp, Getting to Know You: The Inside Out of Relationship (Inner City Books, 1992)

[whenarrowssing]

I will plant you a thousand acorns That will each grow a thousand oaks That will each live a thousand years That will each fledge a bright-backed, blue winged, forest-making jay

[1five1two]

One is the original state of unconscious wholeness; two signifies the conflict between opposites; three points to a potential resolution; the third is the transcendent function; and the one as the fourth is a transformed state of consciousness, relatively whole and at peace.

Daryl Sharp

[triste-le-roy]

Cover to Marie-Louise von Franz’s Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (artist unknown, cover design by Daryl Sharp & Ann Yeoman, 1980).

(via Daisyroots Books)

[lakanen]

Daily life is permeated with symbolic happenings that most of us tend to take literally because we know no better. How are we to learn, and who is there to teach us, the difference?

Daryl Sharp

[whenarrowssing]

I guess I like to wait until I stop crying over art before I show it around publicly, so here we are. Another amazing piece by @britishmuffin because I never get tired of seeing Muffin draw Daryl.

[whenarrowssing]

Like leaves on the bough -

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Got my Mermay 2020 YCH from @captainbasch last night and, hoo boy, it was worth the wait.

The texture, the lighting, the iridescence on the tail, the facial scales mimicking her tattoo!!!! It's just...it's...[chef kiss]

Featuring @lordsnark 's character because he said he hates the Little Mermaid.