When I say the feminine, I don’t mean gender. I mean the feminine principle that is living—or suppressed—in both men and women.
-Marion Woodman

Q : Is there anything you can say about creativity? About being a woman and creativity? At this stage of life?

Marie Louise von Franz : Well, I think creativity is a mystery. You don’t own it. It is an active potency in you. In antiquity they would say it’s a demon haunting you. My creativity has been like that. Whenever I didn’t want to be creating, my dreams got really nasty. I HAD to create. When I was creating – my dreams became cooperative – I create for the sake of my unconscious.

If you comprehend the darkness, it seizes you. It comes over you like the night with black shadows and countless shimmering stars. Silence and peace come over you if you begin to comprehend the darkness. Only he who does not comprehend the darkness fears the night.
Through comprehending the dark, the nocturnal, the abyssal in you, you become utterly simple. And you prepare to sleep through the millennia like everyone else, and you sleep down into the womb of the millennia, and your walls resound with ancient temple chants. Since the simple is what always was. Peace and blue night spread over you while you dream in the grave of the millennia.

An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke in man the slightest trace of that age-old animal power which drives the migrating bird across the sea…
Myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth, rather it speaks to us as a Word of God.

If a man knows more than others, he
becomes lonely. But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to
companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than
the lonely man, and companionship thrives only when each
individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself
with others.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

Children aren’t fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.