Visionaries and self-explorers will always constitute a minority, and for me, the practice of depth psychology means direct service, not to the masses, but to the margins. Gandhi did not free India from division and warfare. Instead, he gave of his very flesh to demonstrate the operation of redemption to generations of practical visionaries eager to grow beyond their socially sanctioned aggressions. Love and hatred are not opposites, as Jung and Christendom taught. Hatred itself is powered by love, the energy that binds atoms as well as cultures, the primal force that fuels every passion, sparks every hunger, fires every anger, fills every lung, inflames every coupling, greens every pasture, illuminates the hearts of suns.
Love lives beyond image, founds the very possibility of image.
Buoyed by what Jesus and Gandhi thought of as grace, life itself goes on posing questions of gripping urgency, and whether we respond peacefully and meaningfully depends, not on gods or devils, heaven or hell, but solely, soulfully, on us. Gandhi image courtesy of Discover India .