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Carl Jung wrote:
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Most of our encounters are shaped — often unconsciously — by a subtle negotiation of wills.
Even when there is openness and goodwill, we tend to meet one another as separate individuals holding positions, advancing perspectives, protecting identities, and quietly steering toward outcomes we can live with.
Something may be achieved.
Minds may shift.
But rarely do we leave feeling that we ourselves have been fundamentally altered by the encounter.
More often, we leave quietly reaffirmed in who we already believe ourselves to be.
But what if we approached life differently?...
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Most of our encounters are shaped — often unconsciously — by a subtle negotiation of wills.
Even when there is openness and goodwill, we tend to meet one another as separate individuals holding positions, advancing perspectives, protecting identities, and quietly steering toward outcomes we can live with.
Something may be achieved.
Minds may shift.
But rarely do we leave feeling that we ourselves have been fundamentally altered by the encounter.
More often, we leave quietly reaffirmed in who we already believe ourselves to be.
But what if we approached life differently?...
A reflection on how we meet one another — and how we meet the world. This reading explores the quiet strength of staying open as participation in the living mesh of relationship and consequence that forms our lives.
A spoken meditation on presence, identity, and the courage to be transformed by encounter.
03:44 - February 11th 2026
A Willingness to be Changed
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