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Gleaming islands, indeed whole continents, can still add themselves to our modern consciousness. CW 8 - par 387

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Nature is often obscure or impenetrable, but she is not, like man, deceitful. We must therefore take it that the dream is just what it pretends to be, neither more or less. If it shows something in a negative light, there is no reason for assuming that it is meant positively. CW 7 - par 162

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It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious... Strictly speaking, the God-image does not coincide with the unconscious as such, but with a special content of it, namely the archetype of the self. It is this archetype from which we can non longer distinguish the God-image empirically. CW 11 - par 757

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If a man is capable of leading a responsible life himself, then he is also conscious of his duties to the community. CW 18 - par 56

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I said just now that we have no schools for forty-year olds. That is not quite true. Our religions were always such schools in the past, but how many people regards them like that today? How many of us older ones have been brought up in such schools and really prepared for the second half of life, for old age, death and eternity. CW 8 - par 786

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Wholly unprepared, we embark upon the second half of life. Or are there perhaps colleges for forty-year-olds which prepare them for their coming life and its demands as the ordinary colleges introduce our young people to a knowledge of the world? No, thoroughly unprepared we take a step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. CW 8 - par 784

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The region of darkness into which one fall is not empty; it is the "lavishing mother" of Lao-Tzu, the "images" and the "seed". When the surface has been cleared, things can grow out of the depths. People always suppose that they have lost their way when they come up against these depths of experience. But if they do not know how to go on, the only answer is, the only advice that makes sense is "Wait fro what the unconscious has to say about the situation." A way is only the way when one finds it and follows it oneself. There is no general prescription for "how to do it". First Ed. of "The Integration Personality," p. 31f

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Behind a man's actions there stands neither public opinion nor moral code, but the personality of which he is still unconscious. Just as a man still is what he always was, so he already is what he will become. The conscious mind does not embrace the totality of man, for his totality consists only partly of his conscious contents, and for the other and far greater part, of his unconscious, which is of indefinite extent with no assignable limits. In this totality the conscious mind is contained like a smaller circle within a larger one. CW 11 - par 390

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Nature has the primary claim on mankind, and only long after that comes the luxury of reason. The medieval ideal of life lived for death should gradually be replaced by a more natural attitude to life, in which the natural claims of man are fully acknowledged, so that the desires of the animal sphere need no longer drag down the higher values of the spiritual sphere in order to be able to function. Symbols of Transformation (Original Version) - par 295

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Human relationship leads into the world of the psyche, into that intermediate realm between sense and spirit, which contains something of both and yet forfeits nothing of its own character. Into this territory a man must venture if he wishes to meet woman half way. CW 10 - par 258f

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Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light. CW 18

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Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer is himself, only they are always a little bit ahead of the dreamer's consciousness. I do not understand my own dreams any better than any of you, for they are always somewhat beyond my grasp and I have the same trouble with them as anyone who knows nothing about dream interpretation. Knowledge is no advantage when it is a matter of one's own dreams. CW 18 - par 122

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Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is matter of saying yea to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects--truly a task that taxes us to the utmost. CW 13 - par 24

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There is no single important idea or view that does not possess historical antecedents. Ultimately they are all founded on primordial archetypal forms whose concreteness dates from a time when consciousness did not think, but only perceived. CW 9 - par 69

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A man is only half understood when we know how everything in him came into being... As a living being he is not understood, for life does not have only a yesterday, nor is it explained by reducing today to yesterday. Life has also a tomorrow, and today is understood only when we can add to our knowledge of what was yesterday the beginnings of tomorrow. CW 7 - par 67

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It needs a very moon-like consciousness indeed to hold a large family together regardless of all the differences, and to talk and act in such a way that the harmonious relation of the parts to the whole is not only disturbed but is actually enhanced. And where the ditch is too deep, a ray of moonlight smoothes it over. CW 14 - par 227

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Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung:
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Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. The primordial images undergo ceaseless transformation and yet remain ever the same, but only in a new from can they be understood anew. CW 16 - par 396