Often times the word surrender can have a negative connotation and in the egocentric mind will be seen as a sign of weakness. But when one is embracing their true spiritual essence it is very necessary to surrender. Submission to the divine creator of all that is allows divine intervention to occur creating magical moments in this experience. For those wishing to get more in tune with the cosmic energies of the universe and tap into the powers within we must be willing to surrender all that we have come to think we know and bow down in humility. It is when we claim knowledge and a knowing that we ourselves create a veil of illusion and limit our understanding of all that is. To humbly surrender the egocentric will to serve the will of the divine creator of all that is enables us to experience a shift in consciousness and opens the floodgates for miraculous events to occur before our very eyes. Humbly accept this gift of love and the beauty as it unfolds in each moment, as we continue together on this path of the great awakening.
"Perfection is inhuman. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love—and I mean love, not lust—is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person, compared to the ideal of your animus or anima, peeks through, say, this is a challenge to my compassion. Then make a try, and something might begin to get going here. You might begin to be quit of your fix on your anima. It's just as bad to be fixed on your anima and miss as to be fixed on your persona: you've got to get free of that. And the lesson of life is to release you from it. This is what Jung calls individuation, to see people and yourself in terms of what you indeed are, not in terms of all these archetypes that you are projecting around and that have been projected on you.
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Jung calls the individual who identifies himself with his persona a mana personality; we would call him a stuffed shirt. That's a person who is nothing but the role he or she plays. A person of this sort never lets his actual character develop. He remains simply a mask, and as his powers fail—as he makes mistakes and so forth—he becomes more and more frightened of himself, puts more and more of an effort into keeping up the mask. Then the separation between the persona and the self takes place, forcing the shadow to retreat further and further into the abyss.
You are to assimilate the shadow, embrace it. You don't have to act on it, necessarily, but you must know it and accept it.
You are not to assimilate the anima/animus—that's a different challenge. You arc to relate to it through the other.
The only way one can become a human being is through relationships to other human beings."
- Joseph Campbell
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