The Occult Mentor: quotes for shadow work + growth

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The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are

- Carl Jung

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams,

from the unconscious,

and they must be brought into connection with action

- Anaïs Nin

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In the midst of tears, I found there was within me an invincible smile

- Albert Camus

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame

- Oscar Wilde

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The most beautiful people we encounter in life are often those who have walked through fire

- Ernest Hemingway

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Any energy that you deny becomes a demon for you.

It becomes your inner tormenter.

And you don't get rid of your demons. You embrace them.

- Adyashanti

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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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To exist is to change,

To change is to mature,

To mature is to go on creating one’s self endlessly

- Henri Bergson

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If everything around seems dark,

Look again...

You may be the light

- Rumi

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out...

But when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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I would rather be whole than good

- Carl Jung

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I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day

- Vincent Van Gogh

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What makes night in our souls can leave stars

- Victor Hugo

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But I’ll tell you what hermits realize...

If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,

You’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything

- Alan Watts

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In the midst of hate, I found there was within me an invincible love

- Albert Camus

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At every moment of our lives,

We all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss

- Paulo Coelho

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I wish I could show you

When you are lonely or in darkness

The astonishing light of your own being

- Hafiz of Shiraz