Soul-making in Pictures

Unconditional Love

Unimaginable Sorrow


Joyous Innocence

Grief, Courage and Compassion
(notice both faces)



Pain of Loss



Loyalty and Respect

Compassionate Warrior

Friendship

Erotic Love



Humane Care

Reverence

Be kinder than necessary to everyone you meet, because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. This is the human condition. All emotions make character. Every experience is a soul-making experience.

------------------------------

A Word from Carl Jung

“The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. It was precisely this conflict within man that led the early Christians to expect and hope for the end of the world, or the Buddhists to reject all earthly desires and aspirations.

“These basic answers would be frankly suicidal if they were not linked up with peculiar mental and moral ideas and practices that constitute the bulk of both religions and that, to a certain extent, modify their radical denial of the world.

“I stress this point because, in our time, there are millions of people who have lost faith in any kind of religion. Such people do not understand their religion any longer. While life runs smoothly without religion, the loss remains as good as unnoticed. But when suffering comes, it is another matter. That is when people begin to seek a way out and to reflect about the meaning of life and its bewildering and painful experiences.”

Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, pp. 85-87