The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
CARL JUNGMan’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
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What you resist persist.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.
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Persona, the mask or image we present to the world. Designed to make a particular impression on others, while concealing our true nature.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.
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One must be able to let things happen.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
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If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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