THE LIVING DEATH Cry those Truth-Tears, brave Warrior of Light! Step fully into the River of The Real! Surrender to its flow! Release all that which you tightly cling! Close your eyes, and Sink below the surface You are no longer afraid! Allow the Hurt to flow, and wash away the lies, the delusions, the disappointment, the rage, the fear Embrace it all! And sink to the riverbed below writhe, convulse, pulsate, erupt, shatter, shake, tremble, twitch, quiver, and sob until you are still, the living death complete In your stillness, the river begins its True Work, to polish the roughness, to remove all that is not truly Self Until one day, you reemerge, reborn, a smooth river stone On-towards death Self, You are loved
THE LIVING DEATH
Artwork: Unnamed, Carl Jung, Red Book, 2009 (written ~1915) (source)