When we are doing something because it is expected of us or to please
somebody else or because we are afraid of somebody else, we become
further alienated from a sense of living authentically.
If we just keep living out a role that we know well, the cost of that is to become increasingly cut off from that which is in the collective unconscious; that which not only nourishes us, but also provides the raw material that allows us to mess up.
Very often in transition periods, that's
exactly what is called for, a change by going through chaos, of losing
the way, of being lost in the forest for some time before we get through
and find our path again.'
