The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
CARL JUNGThe most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
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In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
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Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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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.
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A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
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The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.
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Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.
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Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
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One must be able to let things happen.
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Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
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One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.
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The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
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Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.
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The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
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The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
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Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
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Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.
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The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.
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Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
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Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.
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We discover ourselves through others.
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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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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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