Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

C.G. Jung


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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. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. 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 or something I do not know.

C.G. Jung


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Velká rozhodnutí v lidském životě vznikají často pod vlivem instinktů a dalších záhadných dějů podvědomí a jen zřídkakdy jsou dílem vědomé vůle a zdravého rozumu. Boty, které padnou jednomu, druhého tlačí; neexistuje proto univerzální návod, jak žít. Každý z nás si nese svůj vlastní život - vnější pevnou slupku - a iracionální podobu, které se nelze zbavit.

C.G. Jung


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We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.

C.G. Jung

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Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

C.G. Jung

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Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

C.G. Jung

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Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

C.G. Jung

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Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

C.G. Jung

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The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing ... He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths ... There are not a few who are called awake by the summons of the voice, whereupon they are at once set apart from the others, feeling themselves confronted with a problem about which the others know nothing. In most cases it is impossible to explain to the others what has happened, for any understanding is walled off by impenetrable prejudices. "You are no different from anybody else," they will chorus or, "there's no such thing," and even if there is such a thing, it is immediately branded as "morbid"...He is at once set apart and isolated, as he has resolved to obey the law that commands him from within. "His own law!" everybody will cry. But he knows better: it is the law...The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization — absolute and unconditional— of its own particular law ... To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being ... he has failed to realize his own life's meaning.

C.G. Jung

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The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

C.G. Jung

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