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Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
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Karl Gustav Jung
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Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.
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Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
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I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.
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One cannot live without inconsistency.
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide
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How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
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It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.
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...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.
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The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.
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Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
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The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.
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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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Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
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Dawn is born at midnight.
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
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My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.
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