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“…the soul, the anima, establishes the relationship to the unconscious. In a certain sense this is also the relationship to the collectivity of the dead; for the unconscious corresponds to the mythic land of the dead, the land of the ancestors.”
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflection
“God alone was real—an annihilating fire and an indescribable grace.”
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The sun does not ask the flowers to justify why they bloom. It just gives them light. And the blooming is their answer. ” Nina Lekic
“I am of the opinion that the psyche is the most tremendous fact of human life.” C.G. Jung, Concerning Rebirth
“The years when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.” C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.” C.G. Jung, Letters
“One of the most important and difficult tasks in the individuation process is to bridge the distance between people.” C.G. Jung, Letters
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller
“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.”
C.G. Jung, Synchronicity, An Acausal Connecting Principle
“Mercurius, that two-faced god, comes as the lumen, the Servator, and Salvator, only to those whose reason strives towards the highest light…For those who are unmindful of this light, the lumen naturae turns into a perilous ignis fatuus, and the psychopomp into a diabolical seducer. Lucifer, who could have brought light, becomes the father of lies whose voice in our time, supported by press and radio, revels in orgies of propaganda and leads untold millions to ruin.” C.G. Jung, The Spirit Mercurius
