Edward Edinger: “To take up one’s own cross would mean to accept and consciously realize one’s own particular pattern of wholeness.”
Theophanes the Cretan: Jesus in Golgotha The Symbolism of the Cross Edward Edinger suggests: “To take up one’s own cross would mean to accept and consciously realize one’s own particular pattern of wholeness.” This invariably involves being suspended between successive pairs of opposites (like a veritable crucifixion), with its attendant suffering, and repeated…