Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are good beyond all measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
I was always afraid of confrontation as a child as most of my adult life. Going to a boxing gym and learning how to fight has brought a new found confidence (inner gold)
As a lifelong reader of Jung, Campbell, it has been my experience that the greater ‘hiding’ is from oneself, not from others…in the latter case it can simply be protection, physical or psychological. Once one accepts, pursues and experiences one’s ‘gold’, or quest, one does not need the world or others for validation…however valuable that might be. It is secondary not primary. This leaves the success or failure of one’s life in one’s own hands. I’m thinking of the line from Rostand’ CYRANO DE BERGERAC: in response to an offer to have his play produced with resultant money and fame - but at the cost of his words being altered - Cyrano declines. He says, “When I write a line that sings, I pay myself a thousand times.” So true. Anyway, a great discussion of an important topic.
Isn’t this easily a double bind? One’s “gold” is often just as destructive when followed as not (?). If the collective (which at any time can itself be psychotic) receives it, you’re probably in the tiny minority of people. If your ego can regulate it, same. I suspect it’s mostly fate, temperament and circumstance.
Yikes. “…becomes a poison.” It’s so scary to show your gold if you don’t have that support to bolster you against public criticism. Yet the poison is unbearable…
I have a gold in me that I am not yet sure what it is. I know my gold lies somewhere in the expression through my voice , but I am not sure yet, and I am staying open to let it burst out of me because it’s just I am not too sure yet
0:53 Don't you hide, speaking of gold instead of humanity? Is gold a sense of something solid and measured in purity? Isn't that an assumption of what nature appears to be? I studied Jung's work to learn what I could make of it. That is not the same making of your own designs. You, like figures such as Jordan Peterson, are manufacturing a persona through your ideas. It seems like a good concept to push but it is truly a necessary posture to hold, a neurosis you are yet to admit. The Hero’s journey is identical to the fools quest. It is a search for love that cannot be found amongst our peers or counterparts. A desire to be as natural as our bodies allow. No-one on earth knows how love is supposed to feel. Few people know how anything could possibly feel. Feelings are meant to be unmoved and unmoving. You are precisely where you are meant to be, experiencing just the things you were designed to absorb. All faults are future fortunes.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are good beyond all measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
I was always afraid of confrontation as a child as most of my adult life. Going to a boxing gym and learning how to fight has brought a new found confidence (inner gold)
As a lifelong reader of Jung, Campbell, it has been my experience that the greater ‘hiding’ is from oneself, not from others…in the latter case it can simply be protection, physical or psychological. Once one accepts, pursues and experiences one’s ‘gold’, or quest, one does not need the world or others for validation…however valuable that might be. It is secondary not primary. This leaves the success or failure of one’s life in one’s own hands. I’m thinking of the line from Rostand’ CYRANO DE BERGERAC: in response to an offer to have his play produced with resultant money and fame - but at the cost of his words being altered - Cyrano declines. He says, “When I write a line that sings, I pay myself a thousand times.” So true.
Anyway, a great discussion of an important topic.
Isn’t this easily a double bind? One’s “gold” is often just as destructive when followed as not (?). If the collective (which at any time can itself be psychotic) receives it, you’re probably in the tiny minority of people. If your ego can regulate it, same. I suspect it’s mostly fate, temperament and circumstance.
Yikes. “…becomes a poison.” It’s so scary to show your gold if you don’t have that support to bolster you against public criticism. Yet the poison is unbearable…
... absolutely! And when the criticism is from family. It's an awful feeling to be invalidated all your life.
I have a gold in me that I am not yet sure what it is. I know my gold lies somewhere in the expression through my voice , but I am not sure yet, and I am staying open to let it burst out of me because it’s just I am not too sure yet
there is a danger in hiding, we have ownership of own creativity, and responsibility to its weight
0:53 Don't you hide, speaking of gold instead of humanity? Is gold a sense of something solid and measured in purity? Isn't that an assumption of what nature appears to be?
I studied Jung's work to learn what I could make of it. That is not the same making of your own designs. You, like figures such as Jordan Peterson, are manufacturing a persona through your ideas. It seems like a good concept to push but it is truly a necessary posture to hold, a neurosis you are yet to admit.
The Hero’s journey is identical to the fools quest. It is a search for love that cannot be found amongst our peers or counterparts. A desire to be as natural as our bodies allow.
No-one on earth knows how love is supposed to feel. Few people know how anything could possibly feel.
Feelings are meant to be unmoved and unmoving. You are precisely where you are meant to be, experiencing just the things you were designed to absorb. All faults are future fortunes.
Omg!!!!!!!! Thankssssss so much.
You mention sources for the quotation, but it is also in the bible, Thomas 70.
As i understood why we should not hide inner gold, the question from the title is not answered. Good message.