"Integration is the Key of Darkness."
Jean Houston/Anneloes Smitsman
If we strive to support our lovely self under one headline, we deprive other parts of the self from blooming. When we face our darkness with courage, we will find unexpected treasures and unlimited possibilities of human development.
Jean Houston references individual qualities of the Renaissance rather than limited educational traditions. She highlights numerous ways of learning ... not just one way for all. Discovery of our hidden qualities and expanding them, stimulates an integrated sense of wholeness.
EXERCISE: Draw a circle in the center of a page. Draw additional lines connected to the circle but extending outward. On each extended line, write a quality that reflects a portion of the self no matter how big or small. (The end result will look like the sun with extending beams.) Open the mind and ponder the results of criss crossing qualities. Visually imagine multiple ways of integrating differing parts. It is motivating to see what we are capable of when we combine more than one aspect of the self.
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