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. A person who needs everyone to know how healed they are is not yet healed, and spiritual bypassing is the cleverest version of this: using peace to avoid feeling anything at all.

Art: @jake_baddeley_artist

#PyramidConsciousness #Ego

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especially when the comparing begins, who detached faster, who suffers less visibly, the same old scoreboard wearing incense.
Art: @jake_baddeley_artist

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Most spiritual practice is just the ego trying to become more spiritual.
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Art: @jake_baddeley_artist

#PyramidConsciousness #Ego

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Death does not steal a life. It only reveals whether one was ever lived.
If this exact week repeated for the next thirty years, would that be a life, or a sentence being served?
#PyramidConsciousness #Stoicism #InnerWork

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What broke in you was never a failure of strength. It was the precise place where you stopped being small enough to hold yourself in.
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Art: Micah Ulrich

#PyramidConsciousness #ShadowWork #CarlJung

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The wound becomes a kind of architecture, not a flaw in the design, but the exact place where the design gave way to something it could no longer contain.

Art: Micah Ulrich

#PyramidConsciousness #ShadowWork #CarlJung

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This is why the deepest people are so rarely the ones who avoided damage. They’re the ones whose containers cracked and let something larger move through the crack.
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Art: Micah Ulrich

#PyramidConsciousness #ShadowWork #CarlJung

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It reached its structural limit and broke exactly where it had to break, and something that had been sealed inside finally had a way out. Breath doesn’t move through unbroken walls. It only moves through openings.
Art: Micah Ulrich

#PyramidConsciousness #ShadowWork #CarlJung

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The wound feels like proof that something failed, that the self wasn’t strong enough, that weakness has finally been exposed. But look closer at what actually happened. The ego didn’t fail.
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Art: Micah Ulrich

#PyramidConsciousness #ShadowWork #CarlJung

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The only real choice is whether you move through the bend, or waste your current fighting it.

You don’t defeat the canyon by resisting its shape. You move through it by becoming water.
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Art: Marco De Masi

#PyramidConsciousness #Zhuangzi #Taoism

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Genuine wholeness has to include darkness too, or it’s only half the picture.

The symbol was never asking to be worshipped. It was asking to be understood.

#carljung #psychology #consciousness #pyramidconsciousness #philosophy

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Jung used the Self to name the entire psyche, conscious and unconscious combined, larger than the personality a person consciously identifies as themselves.

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Jung used the Self to name the entire psyche, conscious and unconscious combined, larger than the personality a person consciously identifies as themselves.

#carljung #psychology #consciousness #pyramidconsciousness #philosophy

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Wishing for a different outcome does nothing to interrupt a loyalty this old. Only naming it clearly begins to loosen its grip.

The loyalty was never to them. It was to the shape you know.

#consciousness #pyramidconsciousness #psychology #innerwork #selfawareness

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You don’t need a reason to be fully what you are. The rose never asked for one, and it never once failed to bloom.
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Art: @rooovie

#PyramidConsciousness #AngelusSilesius #Mysticism

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But the mystics who wrote about the rose weren’t describing a flower. They were describing a state, unselfconscious being, action without the endless internal audit of whether it’s worth it.

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Art: @rooovie

#PyramidConsciousness #AngelusSilesius #Mysticism

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You have been tired for years. That is not a sleep problem. That is a life problem.

What have you been enduring, and simply calling it life?

#PyramidConsciousness #InnerWork #Consciousness #ShadowWork

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Before you call something imperfect, ask what it was actually for. You might find it was never broken, only misunderstood.
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Art: Piero Fornasetti

#PyramidConsciousness #Kolbrin #Consciousness #InnerWork #SelfAcceptance

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Your ego is editing this moment before you notice it.
Yet something in you notices the thought, the fear and the story without needing to win. That witness has never been afraid.

Art: Ksenia Gunina-Averburg (also known as Shusha Guna)

#PyramidConsciousness #Ego #ShadowWork

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. Whatever threatens its story gets softened, blamed on someone else or buried in the shadow, where it steers your life from behind.
#PyramidConsciousness #Ego #ShadowWork