The Interior Journey

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   "He who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes." Carl Jung
   
   

   Being self-reflective is a good way to become a mature human.  Psychologists, like Jung, suggest that the behaviors we do not like in others is actually a projection of something we do not like within ourselves.  The answer then is to begin to like all parts of oneself.  I watched Alice in Wonderland recently.  It is said that this is a story in which the author is telling about the parts of himself he met while on an interior journey.  We can all expect to have aspects of ourselves that are the hero/heroine, villain, lover, clown -- to name a few.  An interesting practice is to consider the next time someone does something you do not like --- how is that like me?