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Wounded Images of Self and God
“Among all my patients in the second half of life – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them have been healed who did not regain his religious outlook. This of course has nothing to do with a particular creed or membership in a church.” Carl Jung, “Psychotherapis
Tom Medlar, LMHC
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The Virtuous Center
“Four pivotal human virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The human virtues are stable dispositions of the intellect and will that govern our acts, order our passions, and guide our conduct in accordance with reason and faith.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, page 869. Have you read “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen?” If not, get it right away, and do yourself a kind favor: read it with deep curiosity and be rewarded with deeper insights. Jane Austen i
Tom Medlar, LMHC
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God Speaks to the Self We Don’t Yet Know
Who are you? What is your true identity, and your role in God’s great design? Well, to start with, you are not who you think you are; at least, not only. It is difficult enough to learn to see yourself as other people see you. Others see so many things that we do not see about ourselves; and how much better off we would be if we could know how we are seen by other people. But can you learn to see yourself as God see’s you? Only quite partially, now on earth. That awareness
Tom Medlar, LMHC
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