Carl Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

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If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

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The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

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The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

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The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.

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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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Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

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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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The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

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I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

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I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

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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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I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

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My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

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