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You can take away a man's
gods
, but only to give him others in return.
Carl Jung
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If I accept the fact that a
god
is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a
god
is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important
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I find that all my thoughts circle around
God
like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
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The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say,
God
wants to become man, but not quite.
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Whether you call the principle of existence "
God
," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938
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Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of
God
's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.
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We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a "metamorphosis of the
gods
," i. e. of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science.
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Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of
gods
, overlooked the
God
of Terror who dwells in the human soul.
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked
God
for not making him responsible for his dreams.
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When we assume
God
to be a guiding principle—well, sure enough, a
god
is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian
God
, the summum bonum:
God
is love, love being the highest moral principle; and
God
is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call
God
.
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The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with
God
. Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to
God
, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd?
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Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry
god
... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.
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A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions. Besides that we run the risk of dissolving the experience "Mother" into atoms, thus destroying something supremely valuable and throwing away the golden key which a good fairy laid in our cradle. That is why mankind has always instinctively added the pre-existent divine pair to the personal parents-the "
god
"father and "
god
"-mother of the newborn child-so that, from sheer unconsciousness or shortsighted rationalism, he should never forget himself so far as to invest his own parents with divinity.
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Because we cannot discover
God
's throne in the sky with a radiotelescope or establish (for certain) that a beloved father or mother is still about in a more or less corporeal form, people assume that such ideas are "not true." I would rather say that they are not "true" enough, for these are conceptions of a kind that have accompanied human life from prehistoric times, and that still break through into consciousness at any provocation.
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We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that
God
speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
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We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild
god
.)
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for
God
is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs,
gods
and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.
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All ages before ours believed in
gods
in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the
gods
as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
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No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the
gods
. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.
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The
God
-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through
God
's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.
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The world of
gods
and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.
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The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere, unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype. There is in the psyche some superior power, and if it is not consciously a
god
, it is the "belly" at least, in St. Paul's words. I therefore consider it wiser to acknowledge the idea of
God
consciously, for, if we do not, something else is made
God
, usually something quite inappropiate and stupid such as only an "enlightened" intellect could hatch forth.
Carl Jung
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Carl Jung
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Born:
July 26, 1875
Died:
June 6, 1961
(aged 85)
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