Amerikan Psyche
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"Nowadays, particularly, the world hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man…We are the great danger. The psyche is the great danger. What if something goes wrong with the psyche? And do it is demonstrated in our day what the power of the psyche is, how important it is to know something about it. But we know nothing."
"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts…"
"Giving laws, wanting improvements, making things easier, has all become wrong and evil. May each one seek out his own way, the way leads to mutual love in community. Men will come to see and feel the similarity and communality of their ways."
"We have not understood yet that the discovery of the unconscious means an enormous spiritual task, which must be accomplished if we wish to preserve our civilization."
"The European has become so far removed from his roots that his mind was finally split into faith and knowledge, in the same way that every psychological exaggeration breaks up into its inherent opposites.
His task is to find the natural man again. Instead of this, there is nothing he likes better than systems and methods by which he can repress the natural man who is everywhere at cross purposes with him."
"What is unique about our current situation is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective means with which to realize his propensity to evil. As his consciousness has broadened and differentiated, so his moral nature has lagged behind. That is the great problem before us today: Reason alone no longer suffices.”
"In the exploration of the unconscious we come upon very strange things, from which a rationalist turns away with horror, claiming afterward that he did not see anything.
The irrational fullness of life has taught me never to discard anything, even when it goes against all our theories."
"If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better.
A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
"We constantly overestimate the existing content of consciousness, and it is a great and surprising discovery when we find that what we had supposed to be the final peak is nothing but the first step in a very long climb."
"The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then."
"The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.
That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves."
"To the extent that the Christianity of this time lacks madness, it lacks divine life. Take note of what the ancients taught us in images: madness is divine."
"The essence of a work of art is not to be found in the personal idiosyncrasies that creep into it—indeed, the more there are of them, the less it is a work of art—but in its rising above the personal and speaking from the mind and heart of the artist to the mind and heart of mankind."
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
"No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep."
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.”
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness."
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
“The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”
"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’"
"Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths."
“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ — all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself — that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness — that I myself am the enemy who must be loved — what then? As a rule, the Christian’s attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.”
"It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable."
"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy."
"Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!"
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Quote Source -> secure.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/en/wiki/Carl_Jung
Quote Source -> www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/11/25-thoughtful-quotes…
Quote Source -> www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/38285.C_G_Jung
Face to face with Carl Jung – Part 1 of 4 -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJsiQ4h3fY
Carl Jung On The Psyche – Gnostic -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQubC5zc-y4
We are the evil interview with Carl Jung -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=wop91_Gvwos
Carl Jung – Approaching the Unconscious Part 1 of 15 -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou9fizJKnWQ
Matter of Heart: Carl Jung -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSUq6DAtvc
Carl Jung – BBC: In Our Time -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knw-J37aDO8
Carl G. Jung – Analytical Psychology -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzBbptkLVes
Jung on Film [FULL INTERVIEW] -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRdpvdvYKz0
C.G. Jung In His Own Words – The World Within [FULL DOCUMENTARY] -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=75766BLgqeA
Alan Watts – Tribute to Carl Jung -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgN8m_gIXB8
The Fundamentals of Jungian Psychology: Chapter 1: The Ego & the Self -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJx19GTFh44
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