Tony Ciallella, Former CEO and now Current Board Member at CERI in Western Australia, Partner to my beloved wife and life partner of 53 years, Teacher, Mentor, Father, Grandfather, Voracious and Passionate lover of people, and all things that reflect life
A personal note.... THE SIMILARITY and parallel TO MY OWN LIFE EXPERIENCES of a "boy immigrant" to those which Jung experienced.
A profound expose on Jung's personal life and journey.
Jung teaches the reader about how life can be as easy or as difficult as we wish to make it.
That every thought and every belief will create our reality, the quality and quantity of our life.
From aspects of the occasional or continuous sense of helplessness to self-help and hopefulness.
A strategy to take ourselves out of the morass and minutiae of everyday life negatives to the creation of a sense of hope.
Jung's profound challenges which no one had prepared him/us for. A young boy, (in my case age 5 arriving in a country which was so foreign and unwelcoming to Jung's (& my own presence), in an early period of life.
Constant challenge turmoil, language and learning issues, racism, ridicule, abuse, profound fear and apprehension. Misunderstandings and uncertainty of what may happen next: in the classroom, in the playground of life, on the sports field, disrupted and conflicting emotions, where language, aberrant and unreasonable behaviour, in a country, a people and a society which needed us, yet abused us.
A baptism of fire, which resulted, in being fast-tracked into a lifelong learning experience, enduring fearfully aspects of cruelty in human behaviour.
Learning much from the acceleration in the pace of boyhood to adolescence and manhood.
Many blessings in disguise indeed, especially what strength we derive from our parents and their resolve to be our guides, our teachers and protectors.
Resulting in the building of one's (& my) own resilience, coming to terms, with our own frailties, development of personal empowerment.
Understanding self, what we imagine becomes our reality, in experience, totally interlinked, intertwined.
Creation of insights in life's journey, misfortunes creating the cornerstones and strong foundations to who we are.
Jung captures the reader's imagination, creating a desire for understanding which then equips all of us to make good and poor choices.
Ultimately being provided with the opportunity by parental sacrifices to create a better life in a country which could provide so much.
All, in turn, bringing out the best in us...not as a given, but as a challenge to overcome adversity, small and large in every aspect of life. (wherever our circumstance may take us).
Testing us mentally, emotionally, spiritually and then creating perspective, a sense of gratitude and appreciativeness, who, what, and how of what matters most in our everyday lives. Putting perspective into everything we do every single day.
Jung's lesson in the creation of the meaning of life through self-examination, into how to gain contentment, happiness and purposefulness.
By a simple process, visualising the THAT DAY, the event, the moment, the journey, the outcome, the result.
Then believing and knowing that it is NOT an IF, but the HOW, the WHEN, the WHO, the simplicity of decisions, asking ourselves what is it that matters & WHY.
Each component, creating in all of us, the purpose of life and the moving out from fear, doubt, uncertainty to understanding, to a position KNOWING.
Making life happen, not waiting but creating exactly what we want.
The values which become our cornerstones, our foundations to who we are today.
A very deep desire to fulfil our life's purpose and in turn to leave this planet in better shape than when we arrived. (& to teach others the same)