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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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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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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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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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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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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
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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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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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Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when spirit began to degenerate into intellect, did a reaction set in against the unbearable dominance of intellectualism, and this led to the unpardonable mistake of confusing intellect with spirit and blaming the latter for the misdeeds of the former.
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Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.
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However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.
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The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
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We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.
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Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
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All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.
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The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.
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The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.
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My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.
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Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
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Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
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I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.
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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.
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Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.
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The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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