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stop hiding from your power - by Isabel - Mind Mine

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what you think is humility is actually pride

Carl Jung’s illustration from the Red Book I used to think it was honourable to hide. I thought that accomplishments, success, and achievement were worth pursuing but once you had them, it became your job to resist having them. To not be too proud, to not be ‘found out’ for your talent and success. I used to think that being fully seen was an act of hubris; a symbol of impurity. Much of my journey to self-expression has been this process of shedding the belief that to be humble is to be quiet. This belief that humility is coupled with this unwillingness to be seen: this intense drive to…

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