This quote resonates with me because I also feel in the grip of my Inner Guide (aka my daemon) or Better self. It pushes and pulls me to do right, do well and be compliant with its injunctions. It is powerful as indicated by its consistent presence. It is indefatigable. Yet despite the many advantages, some uncovered by my own experience, of following its dictates, I resist. And I resist even with this perspective of seeing it as a matter of obeying an inner law. And so, like Jung, I don't obey all the time which tends to leave me with feelings of guilt and frustration. Jung in this quote is encouraging us to believe that inconsistent compliance is 'only human' that it is unavoidable because we humans are not saints.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Forgiving Yourself for Not Obeying Your 'Inner Law'
CG Yung called his forceful inner life his 'daiemon'. He states: : " I had much trouble getting along with my
ideas. There was a daemon in me, and in the end its presence proved decisive.
It overpowered me, and if at times I was ruthless, it was because. I was in the grip of the daemon....I had to obey an inner law
which was imposed on me and left me no freedom of choic'. Of
course, I did not always obey it. How could anyone live without inconsistency."http://bit.ly/1KUGoEf
This quote resonates with me because I also feel in the grip of my Inner Guide (aka my daemon) or Better self. It pushes and pulls me to do right, do well and be compliant with its injunctions. It is powerful as indicated by its consistent presence. It is indefatigable. Yet despite the many advantages, some uncovered by my own experience, of following its dictates, I resist. And I resist even with this perspective of seeing it as a matter of obeying an inner law. And so, like Jung, I don't obey all the time which tends to leave me with feelings of guilt and frustration. Jung in this quote is encouraging us to believe that inconsistent compliance is 'only human' that it is unavoidable because we humans are not saints.
This quote resonates with me because I also feel in the grip of my Inner Guide (aka my daemon) or Better self. It pushes and pulls me to do right, do well and be compliant with its injunctions. It is powerful as indicated by its consistent presence. It is indefatigable. Yet despite the many advantages, some uncovered by my own experience, of following its dictates, I resist. And I resist even with this perspective of seeing it as a matter of obeying an inner law. And so, like Jung, I don't obey all the time which tends to leave me with feelings of guilt and frustration. Jung in this quote is encouraging us to believe that inconsistent compliance is 'only human' that it is unavoidable because we humans are not saints.
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