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These words are not my own and I take no credit for them. I share them here as a resource for anyone seeking personal growth or as source material for their own creative expansion of the collective.
Think psychologically and live spiritually.
Jean Benedict Raffa, The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes, Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit, Atglen, PA, 2020, p. 196
Don't make the mistake of thinking you (your ego) made these things happen. A mystical experience is a gift of grace. Your ego is a small part of the Self, and it cannot contrive mystical experiences for you or anyone else. To think you can means your ego identifies with God. You are not God, and you cannot manipulate the sacred mysteries of the universe. But you can open to the Self and wait for its guidance and grace.
Jean Benedict Raffa, The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes, Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit, Atglen, PA, 2020, p. 192
At some point in your spiritual journey, you may have a profound mystical experience. This does not mean you are finished. It means you are at the threshold of a new path…
Jean Benedict Raffa, The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes, Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit, Atglen, PA, 2020, p. 194
I also did not know - no more than, even today, it is generally known - that the future is unconsciously prepared long in advance and therefore can be guessed by clairvoyants.
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Random House, 1989, pp. 234-235
In the upsurge of mystical experience, everything that once bound man to the human world, to earth, to time and space, to matter and the natural living of life, has been cast aside or dissolved. But unless the unconscious is balanced by the experience of consciousness, it will implacably reveal its contrary or negative aspect.
Aniela Jaffé, (editors Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz), Man and His Symbols, Doubleday Inc., Garden City, NY, 1964, p. 267
The words mysticism and mystery are both related to a Greek word meaning: 'to close the eyes or the mouth'. Both refer to experiences that are obscure and ineffable, because they are beyond speech, and relate to the inner rather than the external world.
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth, Canongate, New York, NY, 2005, p. 109
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