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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
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Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.
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Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche
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Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
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The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
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Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
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When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
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Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. It has a wider "unconscious" aspect that is never precisely defined or fully explained... As the mind explores the symbols it is led to ideas that lie beyond the grasp of reason.
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We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.
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I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
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Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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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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