Quotes from Carolyn Elliott

Fear is just excitement without breath.

The magical worldview is this: As above, so below. As within, so without.

The English word psyche, meaning "soul" or "mind," comes from the Greek word psyche, meaning butterfly.

Fear is excitement without the breath,

As a dreamer, you're inevitably called to dream yourself awake using the full resources of your imagination and heart. You may have buried or repressed your season of insight, but it happened, and now you are irrevocably changed.

As we dreamers make our souls into evolved fields, our genius is nutured and our presence and everything we create becomes charged and capable of positively altering the fields of others. In this process, we become more essentially human-which is to say, paradoxically, more divine.

While society sometimes carelessly refers to sociopathic, narcissistic behavior as "shameless," people with sociopathic narcissism are so burdened by neurotic shame that they can't empathically feel their impact on other people, or even feel their own authentic desire for connection.

The thing about reaction formations is that they are reactions, and not responses to life. Genuine responsive emotions have an open, connecting, "moving" quality to them. They feel fresh and spontaneous including "dark" genuine emotions like anger and grief.

As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that you experiment with. The obstacles and challenges that you find are there to dare you to become vast and wise enough to surmount them. At this stage, it helps to ask yourself: What is the myth I'm living? And what must I do to live it well?

Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.

The genius craves inspiration: she craves altered states and fresh perceptions. She will have them either through evolving closer to the divine or through devolving lower into the world. This is how some people with great genius come to die of drug and alcohol addiction: they seek inspiration by intoxication and are thereby ruined.

In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance.

There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

After all, deprivation was what he believed was there, but it was the ever-present, self-confirming mechanism of fulfillment that fulfilled his perception of deprivation! Once the hungry ghost perceives that fulfillment is more real than deprivation, he can start to perceive fulfillment everywhere because if we perceive something somewhere, we will eventually perceive it everywhere. That's the quirk of consciousness.

Because as long as the hungry ghost believes that only the deprivation he already perceives is real, he will continue to perceive only deprivation. That's the vicious circle.

If you want to know who you unconsciously believe you are, just take a look at your life, your surroundings, your relationship. Your life mirrors those deep beliefs.

This is what Jung's predecessor, Sigmund Freud, called "the return of the repressed.

A common-place book is a technology of resistance against getting lost on the urgent surface of life.

The paradox is that once you fully commit to being who you already are, having what you already have, and hugely celebrating it, you become a masterful practical magician, a force of nature capable of shifting circumstances very easily.

We're in a very difficult position. We have to exercise the courage to give to ourselves the reverence that the people around us can't and won't be able to provide. This decision is frightening, because it feels like we're going against the common social reality and inventing our own—and this is indeed exactly what we're doing—because our common social reality is lacking and ailing.

So the purpose of the axiom "having is evidence of wanting" is not at all to blame anyone or to shame them for their experience

If we all allow ourselves to feel the unconscious, divine, kinky pleasure we've been suppressing, then we are left with just our intelligence to guide our decisions, and that's great. Your own intelligence and consciously chosen principles are a much better ethical compass than your reactive feelings of guilt.

Becoming whole means we recognize our dark, kinky side, and that we not only accept it, forgive it, and take responsibility for it, but that we love it, enjoy its antics, and finally integrate it into our whole being.

All of the aforementioned popular "vibration raising" practices have a way of brightening the light in our being, which tends to intensify and sharpen the presence of our latent darkness.