We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of grater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us. The less we understand of what our [forebears] sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzche called the spirit of gravity. (p.236)
C.G. JungThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
C.G. JungEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
C.G. JungTags: life psychology
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
C.G. JungTags: self psychology conscience pride superego
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
C.G. JungTags: life truth psychology mistakes
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
C.G. JungTags: indolence agrasiveness object-of-desire
God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.
C.G. JungTags: psychology-spirituality
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England
Tags: science psychology parapsychology ghosts reincarnation spirits 1919 poltergeists premonitions psychic
But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?
C.G. JungFaith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
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