# Psyche

### [Lessons From My 1 Year Spinal Surgery Recovery](/content/spirituality/lessons-from-my-1-year-spinal-surgery-recovery/index.html)

My ~1 year spinal surgery recovery process has taught me a lot. I had a…

### [The Danger Of ‘Perfection’ & Tara Brach’s Reminder](/content/mindset/the-danger-of-perfection-tara-brachs-reminder/index.html)

Perfection might not exist in and of itself, but it is a striving part of…

### [I Am Not What Happened To Me, I Am What I Choose to Become – Carl Jung’s Message](/content/psyche/i-am-not-what-happened-to-me-i-am-what-i-choose-to-become-carl-jungs-message/index.html)

There is a modern magic to reflecting on the words of great thinkers from a…

### [Fall Equinox 2023 – The Powerful Symbolism of Harvest & Balance](/content/psyche/fall-equinox-2023-the-powerful-symbolism-of-the-harvest-balance/index.html)

When we access the symbolic meaning of ongoing events around us, we allow ourselves a…

### [This “Pretty Ugly” Poem Invites Us To Examine Our Self-Talk & Perspective](/content/philosophy/this-pretty-ugly-poem-invites-us-to-examine-our-self-talk-perspective/index.html)

It could certainly be argued that a large amount of the social content in our…

### [The Perception of Being](/content/mindset/the-perception-of-being/index.html)

Are they speaking and seeing the true you -- the core you of you --…

### [Sigmund Freud’s Lesson On The Highest Level of Decision Making](/content/psyche/sigmund-freuds-lesson-on-the-highest-level-of-decision-making/index.html)

Modern existence is built around the dominance of the mind, but Freud -- of all…

### [Maya Angelou’s Warning On ‘Trying To Be Normal’](/content/psyche/maya-angelous-warning-on-trying-to-be-normal/index.html)

Normalcy should never be the goal, if such a thing as ‘normal’ even exists. We…

### [14 Manly P. Hall Quotes on Wisdom, Symbolism, Knowledge & Understanding](/content/psyche/14-manly-p-hall-quotes-on-wisdom-symbolism-knowledge-understanding/index.html)

In the theme of examining our perceptions, Manly P. Hall invites us to explore concepts…

### [We Have Fractured Ourselves Through Our Thinking | Rumi’s Timeless Wisdom](/content/psyche/we-have-fractured-ourselves-through-our-thinking-rumis-timeless-wisdom/index.html)

We have become fractured, or perhaps more appropriately, we have neglected our own fracturing as…