Saltash Counselling

06/02/2023

12/01/2023

This quote speaks to the challenge of loving yourself…yes all of yourself. The light and the dark. The parts that are easy to love AND the parts that carry shame, messiness, hurt, longing, loneliness. And yet, this is the task set before all of us, as difficult as it may be, to truly, deeply, fully, accept and welcome all of yourself into the open space of awareness and stand inside this excruciatingly beautiful Self.
I’ll pair tonight’s reflection and stunningly beautiful sunset with this quote from Carl Jung:

“To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing, red-hot iron; it burns into you and that is very painful.
Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us.
You cannot stay away from yourself forever. You have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question - whether you can love yourself. And that will be the test.”
~Carl Jung