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• Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

  Carl Jung

  Letting Go, Ego, Midlife

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• A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

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  Inspirational, Creative, Littles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

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  Heart, Desire, Meaning Of Life

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• Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

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  Shadow Work, Intention, Individual

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• Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

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  Water, Unconscious, Symbols

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

  Carl Jung

  Life Is

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• The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

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  Doctors, Physicians, Heal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

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  Real, Men, Understanding

  "Face to Face", TV Series (1959– ). "Professor Jung", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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• Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

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  Men, Individuality, Resistance

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.43, Routledge

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• Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

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  War, Neurosis, Mental Illness

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

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  Intuition, Doe, Reason

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• The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

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  Suicide, Spiritual, Self

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• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

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  Book, Astrology, Heaven

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

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  Moving, Thoughtful, Long Distance

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

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  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

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  World, Individual, Existence

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• But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

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  Art, People, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.113, Psychology Press

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• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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  Life, Loving Life, Follow Your Heart

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• Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

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  Devil

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• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

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  Spiritual, Nature, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

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  Lying, Design, Problem

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.106, Psychology Press

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

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  Lying, Men, Law

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• What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

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  Past, Possibility, Given

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• What we lack is intensity of life.

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  Intensity

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.

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  Dream, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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