Up: [[Opposites]] Related: [[Enantiodromia]] Created: 2024-05-11 It doesn't work to repress an opposite that we don't like. For example, when Christians repress evil, Jungians say that actually allows evil to break its bonds and run wild, possessing more and more people. Whereas if evil were recognized, accepted as part of the whole, we could hold it in consciousness and it would not have the detrimental impact that it has when we are blindly denying it. > [!Orbit] Pema Chodron > Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both… > Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. > One inspires us; the other softens us. They go together. Any position taken to its extreme turns into its opposite. This is called [[Enantiodromia]].