Defenses....

"The more you defend yourself,
the more you believe what you defend against."

- Alan Cohen

Multiplicatio...

"The multiplicatio gives symbolic form to an important psychological fact: The most effective way to change the world is first to change yourself. We all have within us the ability to do evil and to do good, to kill and to heal. Which side will predominate in your life or mine depends entirely on how we relate to it. We so called civilized people will go to almost any lengths not to become aware of that primeval power in ourselves, although we see it clearly in others and are quick to condemn or idealize it where we see it. This mechanism, called projection, threatens to blow world apart unless enough people turn inward and form the right kind of relationship to the power of life and death within themselves. Then that mysterious inner other might find a way to heal both our individual personal wounds and also some small part of this grievously endangered planet."

-Shared from the bookListening To The Rhino:
Violence and Healing in a Scientific Age ,

Janet O. Dallettt