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The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

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Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of... mature people is of crucial importance.

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It [number] preconsciously orders both psychic thought processes and the manifestations of material reality.

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My God, these Feeling types!... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

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There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

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The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

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As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

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Nevertheless, this individual aspect [just-so-ness] of number appears to contain the mysterious factor that enables it to organize psyche and matter jointly.

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Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

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It is no accident that, in ancient times many peoples used priestesses (think, for example, of the Greek Sibyls) to enter into relationship with the will of the gods.

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