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The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Carl Jung
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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
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Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
C. G. Yungu
Carl Gustav Jung
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Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.
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Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.
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Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.
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Called or not, God is always there.
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Everyone can afford to give away a smile.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
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We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.
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What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.
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