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You always become the thing you fight the most.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
Essayist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
C. G. Yungu
Carl Gustav Jung
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I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.
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The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
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Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide
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The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
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Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.
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We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
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The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
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It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
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Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
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Called or not, God is always there.
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A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
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The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.
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