Each of us has a dark side, along with our own grace and light. The extent to which we can acknowledge the former while maximizing the latter may det… - Caroline Myss

Always, a shift in awareness includes a period of isolation and loneliness as one gets accustomed to the new level of truth. And then always, new companions are found. No one is left alone for long.

Indeed, sometimes it’s easier to recover from a physical crisis than from a myth crisis. It can be difficult to heal from a myth crisis if you don’t even realize you’re in one! An unacknowledged myth crisis can be the seed of lifelong depression and even a terminal illness.

John O’Donohue talks about the Buddhist tradition of the kalyana-mitra, or “noble friend.” Your noble friend, he says, “will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. No one can see life totally. As there is a blind spot in the retina of the human eye, there is also in the soul a blind side where you are not able to see. Therefore you must depend on the one you love to see for you what you cannot see yourself.