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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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• 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.

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  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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• If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

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  Dark, Opposites, Unions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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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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• 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 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 world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

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  World, Individual, Existence

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

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  Devil

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• The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.

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  Angel, Half, Conflict

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• The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

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  Spring, Artist, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature”, Routledge

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• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

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  Creativity, Men, Creative

  "Psychology and Poetry". Book by Carl Jung, June, 1930.

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• The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

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  Dream, Doe, Parables

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

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• The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

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  World, Today, Causes

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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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• When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

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  Moving, Our World, Awakening

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• Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

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  Age, Losing, Forgotten

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.98, North Atlantic Books

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• The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

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  Views, Important, Stronger

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• The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

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  Punishment, Understanding, Process Of Change

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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• But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Ifs

  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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• Nothing is possible without love.

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  Without Love

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• My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

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  Taken, Order, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.78, Psychology Press

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