Expressing Ourselves in the World with Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz

E28 Expressing Ourselves in the World

“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.”― Joseph Campbell

The Fool in each of us sees through and deflates our sense of self-importance, bringing us down to earth. The Fool part of our psyche takes away any sense that we control our fate and takes us beyond a heroic stance toward life. The Fool accepts all parts of our inner psyche and savors the beauty and joy of each unique and different moment and individual.

Rulers and Magicians work hard to redeem and heal the planet. Sages struggle and strive to maintain truth. Only the Fool simply trusts the moment and savors life in its fullness, without judgment, appreciating not only life’s joys but also its sorrows.

The Fool then has the openness and the creativity of the Innocent without the Innocents need for denial and protection.

The Fool’s recognition and acceptance of human fallibility is to motivate laughter - not judgment, despair or even social activism.

When the Fool is in our lives, we know joy because we are released from all the collective “should’s” to really live.

When we let go of the Ego and the need to be important, we can open up to joy. This state is not the end of the journey. It continues throughout our lives. But it does change the quality of the journey. Once we have moved beyond heroism, into the dance, we experience much less suffering.

The Fool, then, is the Archetype that connects us to instinctual life and helps us experience greater joy.