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But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
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The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
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When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.
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For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
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If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
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Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
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But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
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Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
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Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
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There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
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I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.
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Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.
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The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
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Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.
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Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
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I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.
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At bottom we discover nothing new and unknown in the mentally ill; rather, we encounter the substratum of our own natures.
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I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.
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Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
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Our civilization bothers us less with food tabus than with sexual restrictions. In modern society these have come to play the role of an injured deity that is getting its own back in every sphere of human activity, including psychology, where it would reduce "spirit" to sexual repression.
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Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
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Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
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The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
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Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.
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Born:
July 26, 1875
Died:
June 6, 1961
(aged 85)
Bio:
Carl Gustav Jung, often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology.
Known for:
The Red Book
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Man and His Symbols
Psychological Types (1921)
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1959)
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