Quotes from Carolyn Elliott

The basic formula for profound alchemical change is solve et coagula, which means: to first utterly dissolve (solve) an existing form and then to carefully bring the dissolved and purified elements together again (coagula) in a whole new, more potent and finely organized, permutation.

As Jung emphasized: "Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.

But Jung also pointed out: "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

What I'm suggesting is: Just let failure and humiliation (and all the "bad stuff"—anxiety and scarcity and fat and wrinkles and pain and ultimately death itself) be the cherished beloveds that they already are to you.

We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.

The role of your genius spirit is to essentially heal, transform, and evolve consciousness.

every unpleasant feeling we have has an unconscious motivation.

It's impossible to desire something without also fearing it a bit, and it's impossible to fear and dislike something without also desiring it.

Even those in the "functional adult" camp with relatively mild addictive tendencies often find that despite their best efforts and intentions, dark patterns repeat in their lives.