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How Did This Happen?
Scott Gardner
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Jung disturbingly observed that what we have ignored or denied inwardly will then more likely come to us as outer fate.
“So, where did this outcome, this event, come from within me?”
~ James Hollis
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“The one thing parents can do for their children is live their lives as fully as they can, for this will open the children’s imagination, grant permission to them to have their own journey, and open the doors of possibility for them. Wherever we are stuck, they will have a tendency to be stuck also or will spend their life trying to overcompensate. Living our own journey as fully as possible is not only a gift to our soul, it also frees up the generation behind us to live theirs as well. The very freedom to live our lives that we wished from our parents, we thereby grant to our children to live theirs.”
— James Hollis
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Answering that question wrongly can make it impossible to find the truth. The last place we want to look is inward. If we do suspect that we unconsciously made the bad thing happen, we just blame ourselves without learning anything. We chastise our stupidity, but don’t investigate how or why we shut our eyes to the truth. It almost seems as if life finally decides to teach us…
