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Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
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First we must accept the fact of ourselves, what we are; then we can develop. In accepting ourselves in our embryonic condition we receive ourselves, as a mother receives a child in her womb where it is fed and develops. If we can really accept ourselves, we can feed and develop ourselves; to expect anything else is like expecting a cast-off child to thrive. The Visions Seminars, V. I, p. 204
Thursday, February 24, 2011
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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We think we can congratulate ourselves on having reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal spectres, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of gods. We are still as much possessed by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor's consulting room, or disorders the brains of politicians and journalists who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world. CW 13 - par 54
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors which radiate out from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, is an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. CW 11 - par 391
Monday, February 21, 2011
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An ancient adept has said, If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way. This Chinese saying, unfortunately only too true, stands in sharp contrast to our belief in the right method irrespective of the man who applies it. In reality, everything depends on the man and little or nothing on the method. The method is merely the path, the direction taken by the man. CW 13, par 4
Friday, February 18, 2011
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So far as I can grasp the nature of the collective unconscious, it seems to me like an omnipresent continuum, an unextended Everywhere. That is to say, when something happens here at a point A which touches upon or affects the collective unconscious, it has happened everywhere. Letters, Vol. 1, p. 58
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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The utterances of the heart--unlike those of the discriminating intellect--always relate to the whole. The heartstrings sing like an Aeolian harp only to the gentle breath of a premonitory mood, which does not drown the song but listens. What the heart hears are the great things that span our whole lives, the experiences which we do nothing to arrange but which we ourselves suffer. CW 18 - par 9
Monday, February 14, 2011
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The old alchemists were nearer to the central truth of the psyche [...] when they strove to deliver the fiery spirit from the alchemical elements, and treated the mystery as though it lay in the dark and silent womb of nature. It was still outside them. The upward thrust of evolving consciousness was bound sooner or later to put an end to the projection, and to restore to the psyche what had been psychic from the beginning. CW 12 - par 562
Friday, February 11, 2011
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If you sum up what people tell you about their experiences , you can formulate it this way: They came to themselves, they could accept themselves, they were able to become reconciled to themselves, and thus were reconciled to adverse circumstances and events. This is almost like what used to be expressed by saying: He has made his peace with God, he has sacrificed his own will, he has submitted himself to the will of God. CW 11 - par 138
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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Monday, February 7, 2011
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Friday, February 4, 2011
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Creative life always stands outside convention. That is why, when the mere routine of life predominates in the form of convention and tradition, there is bound to be a destructive outbreak of creative energy. This outbreak is a catastrophe only when it is a mass phenomenon, but never in the individual who consciously submits to these higher powers and serves them with all his strength. CW 17 - par 305
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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Our personal psychology is just a thin skin, a ripple on the ocean of collective psychology. The powerful factor, the factor which changes our whole life, which changes the surface of our known world, which makes history, is collective psychology, and collective psychology moves according to laws entirely different from those of our consciousness. CW 18 - par 183
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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The organism confronts light with a new structure, the eye, and the psyche confronts the natural process with a symbolic image, which apprehends it in the same way as the eye catches the light. And just as the eye bears witness to the peculiar and spontaneous creative activity of living matter, the primordial image expresses the intrinsic and unconditioned creative power of the psyche. The primordial image is thus a condensation of the living process. CW 6 - par 748f
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