"Each of us wrestles with the dark giant in our own way."

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Source : Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.56, Wellspring/Ballantine

Connie Zweig

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“Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.”
“That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.”
“Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.”
“All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.”
“When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.”
“We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.”
“Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.”
“What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.”

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