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" I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. "

Carl Jung

Over

Finding

Life

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Own

Experience

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Two

Reaction

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Wisdom

Understanding

" Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. "

" Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "