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" The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. "

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" One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. "

Carl Jung

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" The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. "

" 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. "

" The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. "

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. "

" We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. "

" There is no coming to consciousness without pain. "

" In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. "

" 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. "

" All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. "

" Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. "

" Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. "

Carl Jung

People

Important

" A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. "

" We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. "

" Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. "

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. "

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

Carl Jung

Nobody

Long

" Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. "

" The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. "

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

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Own

Experience

" Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. "

" Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration? "

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

" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

" Even 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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. "

" The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. "

" The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. "

" A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. "

" The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. "

Carl Jung

Two

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