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eaf8225
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When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.
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humor
jung
gods
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C.G. Jung |
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852bd52
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The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains itself in equilibrium as the body does.
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C.G. Jung |
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879b094
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it is of the greatest importance that the ego should be anchored in the world of consciousness and that consciousness should be reinforced by a very precise adaptation. For this, certain virtues like attention, conscientiousness, patience, etc., are of great value on the moral side, just as accurate observation of the symptomatology of the unconscious and objective selfcriticism are valuable on the intellectual side.
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C.G. Jung |
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eb3e5c8
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At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things--but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.
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C.G. Jung |
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0f97e3e
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When a person tries to obey the unconscious, he will often, as we have seen, be unable to do just as he pleases. But equally he will often be unable to do what other people want him to do. It often happens, for instance, that he must separate from his group-from his family, his partner, or other personal connections-in order to find himself. That is why it is sometimes said that attending to the unconscious makes people antisocial and egoce..
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C.G. Jung |
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But when a thing is tangibly idiotic, you can be sure that it is very powerful, very dangerous. You see, when we call a thing stupid, we think that we undo it, that we have overcome it somehow. Of course nothing of the sort happens; we have simply made a statement that it is very important, have advertised it, and it appeals to everybody. People think, thank heaven, here is something we can understand, and they eat it. But if we say somethi..
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C.G. Jung |
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283e543
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In general, the heart seems to have a more reliable memory for what benefits the psyche than does the head, which has a rather unhealthy tendeny to lead an 'abstract' existence, and easily forgets that its consciousness is snuffed out the moment the heart fails its duty.
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C.G. Jung |
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041c91f
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But I was not my self, confronted with my thoughts. I should also rise up above my thoughts to my own self. My journey goes there, and that is why it leads away from men and events into solitude. Is it solitude, to be with oneself? Solitude is true only when the self is a desert.73 Should I also make a garden out of the desert? Should I people a desolate land? Should I open the airy magic garden of the wilderness? What leads me into the des..
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C.G. Jung |
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In fact, passion that goes beyond the natural measure of love ultimately aims at the mystery of becoming whole, and this is why one feels, when he has fallen passionately in love, that becoming one with the other person is the only worthwhile goal of one's life.)
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C.G. Jung |
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Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference, ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.
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distinctiveness
striving
thinking
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49ec1ca
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Every concept in our conscious mind, in short, has its own psychic associations. While such associations may vary in intensity (according to relative importance of the concept to our whole personality, or according to the other ideas and even complexes to which it is associated in our unconscious), they are capable of changing the "normal" character of that concept. It may even become something quite different as it drifts below the level o..
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C.G. Jung |
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Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but cannot hear it, It is called the rarefied. Because the hand feels for it but cannot find it, It is called the infinitesimal. ... These are called the shapeless shapes, Forms without form, Vague semblances. Go towards them, and you can see no front; Go after them, and you see no rear.
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they determine you without you understanding their language.53 One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is a knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight.54 The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth. Scholarliness belongs to the spirit of this time, but thi..
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C.G. Jung |
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The conflict between science and religion is in reality a misunderstanding of both. Scientific materialism has merely introduced a new hypostasis, and that is an intellectual sin. It has given another name to the supreme principle of reality and has assumed that this created a new thing and destroyed and old thing. Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you..
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C.G. Jung |
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The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.
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freedom
politics
philosophy
services
welfare
the-self
individualism
society
state
psychology
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C.G. Jung |
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3a4c2ac
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We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the 'sine qua non' of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.
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C.G. Jung |
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291e5fb
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Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further we are able to remove ourselves from the unconscious through directed functioning, the more readily a powerful counterposition can build up in the unconscious, and when this breaks out it may have disagreeable consequences.
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cca2a2b
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I should give myself completely into your hands--but who are you? I do not trust you. Not once to trust, is that my love for you, my joy in you? Do I not trust every valiant man, and not you, my soul? Your hand lies heavy on me, but I will, I will. Have I not sought to love men and trust them, and should I not do this with you?
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C.G. Jung |
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Everything to come was already in images: to find their soul, the ancients went into the desert. This is an image. The ancients lived their symbols, since the world had not yet become real for them. Thus they went into the solitude of the desert to teach us that the place of the soul is a lonely desert. There they found the abundance of visions, the fruits of the desert, the wondrous flowers of the soul. Think diligently about the images th..
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C.G. Jung |
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70d0566
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The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly.
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C.G. Jung |
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Only man as an individual human being lives; the state is just a system, a mere machine for sorting and tabulating the masses. Anyone, therefore, who thinks in terms of men minus the individual, in huge numbers, atomizes himself and becomes a thief and a robber to himself. He is infected with the leprosy of collective thinking and has become an inmate of that insalubrious stud-farm called the totalitarian State. Our
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C.G. Jung |
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In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind the unconscious is objective, manifesting itself mainly in the form of contrary feelings, fantasies, emotions, impulses and dreams, none of which one makes oneself but which come upon one objectively. Even
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C.G. Jung |
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c090b95
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Is that which science calls the "psyche" not merely a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, now and again allowing strange and unseizable potencies to act upon him and to remove him, as if upon the wings of the night, from the level of common humanity to that of a more personal vocation?"
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psychology
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C.G. Jung |
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e2a263d
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The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
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religion-and-science
spiritual-wisdom
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C.G. Jung |
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96cae36
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If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.
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philosophy
splitting
polarity
duality
psyche
unconscious
subconscious
the-self
individualism
society
consciousness
psychology
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C.G. Jung |
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4816d89
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The image of the world is half the world.
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C.G. Jung |
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a4b1d0f
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That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.
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unconscious-mind
mental-health
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dd1cf26
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A story told by the conscious mind has a beginning, a development, and an end, but the same is not true of a dream. Its dimensions in time and space are quite different; to understand it you must examine it from every aspect-just as you may take an unknown object in your hands and turn it over and over until you are familiar with every detail of its shape.
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C.G. Jung |
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cf80a57
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My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.
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knowledge
the-unknown
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C.G. Jung |
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cb5850b
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This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.
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C.G. Jung |
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8a98158
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The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgement go, is completely neutral. It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases. But the moment the patient begins to assimilate contents that were previously unconscious, its danger diminishes. The dissociation of person..
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polarity
duality
unconscious
healing
conscious
psychology
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C.G. Jung |
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3ae27bd
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All the corpses in the world are chemically identical, but living individuals are not.
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C.G. Jung |
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Dreams give information about the secrets of the inner life and reveal to the dreamer hidden factors of his personality. As long as these are undiscovered, they
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C.G. Jung |
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Jung introduced the idea of synchronicity to strip off the fantasy, magic, and superstition which surround and are provoked by unpredictable, startling, and impressive events that, like these, appear to be connected.
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C.G. Jung |
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4f72e25
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His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names.
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C.G. Jung |
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Only the man who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past, and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed for him by his world, can achieve full consciousness of the present. To do this he must be sound and proficient in the best sense--a man who as achieved as much as other people, and even a little more. It is these qualities which enable him to gain the next highest level of consciousness.
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C.G. Jung |
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64dba2f
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It is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective means with which to realize his propensity to evil.
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C.G. Jung |
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0b4d6e0
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Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone"
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C.G. Jung |
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d567d55
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To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey - light on a dark background or dark on light.
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psychology
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C.G. Jung |
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2eb34ef
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The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.
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C.G. Jung |
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77fe7d9
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It seems to me that I despised you. My joy at finding you again was not genuine.
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C.G. Jung |
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d30d1ea
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For underlying all philosophies and all religions are the facts of the human soul, which may ultimately be the arbiters of truth and error.
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C.G. Jung |
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9d5f9aa
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Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.
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C.G. Jung |
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49ac1d5
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Wherever the creative power of desire is, there springs the soil's own seed. But do not forget to wait.
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C.G. Jung |