Show me
a sane man and I will cure him for you...
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens...
The meeting of two personalities is like the
contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are
transformed...
If there is anything 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...
: " I always
remember one morning I received, a really
poor piece of paper; from a woman who wanted to meet at least once in
her life time. The letter impressed me strongly, but I wasn’t sure which
was the reason.
I invited her to visit me and she came. She was very humble, also
intellectually. I don't think she had even finished her elementary
studies. She looked after her brother's home, and also managed a little
press shop.
I kindly asked she replied me this way: " Your books are not books, Herr
Professor, they are bread ".
C.G.Jung
The
Symbolism of Wine
" But, in so far as bread and wine are important products of culture,
they do express a vital human striving. They represent a definite cultural
achievement which is the fruit of attention, patience, industry, devotion,
and laborious toil. The words 'our daily bread' express man's anxious care
for his existence. By producing bread he makes his life secure. But in so
far as he 'does not live by bread alone,' bread is fittingly accompanied by
wine, whose cultivation has always demanded a special degree of attention
and much painstaking work. Wine, therefore, is equally an expression of
cultural achievement. Where wheat and the vine are cultivated, civilized
life prevails. But where agriculture and vine-growing do not exist, there is
only the uncivilized life of nomads and hunters."
"As to the special nature of these substances, bread is undoubtedly
a food. There is a popular saying that wine 'fortifies,' though not in the
same sense as food 'sustains.' It stimulates and 'makes glad the heart of
man' by virtue of a certain volatile substance which has always been called
'spirit.' It is thus, unlike innocuous water, an 'inspiring' drink... Bread
therefore represents the physical means of subsistence, and wine the
spiritual." C.G. Jung, "Transformation Symbolism in the Mass," inThe Collected Works of C.G. Jung, 11, pars. 382,
384
Time and Space
"....The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in
the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space.
They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of
our psyche time does not exist at all."
C G Jung CW vol 18,
para. 684
Life and Spirit
" Life is the touchstone for the truth of spirit ".
Spirit that drags man away from life, seeking fulfillment only in
itself, is a false spirit - though man is to blame, since he can choose
whether he will give himself up to this spirit or not.
Life and Spirit are two great powers or necessities between which man is
placed.
Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest
development. But life is essential to spirit, since its truth is nothing
if it cannot live."
C G Jung "The
Practical Use of Dream Analysis" (1934) The Practice of Psychotherapy pg. 647
Matter
" The West (thus) developed a new disease: the conflict between
science and religion. The critical philosophy of science became as it
were negatively metaphysical - in other words, materialistic - on the
basis of an error of judgement; matter was assumed to be a tangible and
recognizable reality. Yet this is a thoroughly metaphysical concept
hypostasised by uncritical minds. Matter is an hypothesis. When you say
"matter" you are creating asymbol for something unknown, which
may just as well be a spirit or anything else; it may even be God."
The Giver is Within
" It is highly sensible......To make clear the primacy of the
psyche, for that is the one thing which life does not make clear to us.
We are so hemmed in by things which jostle and oppress that we never get
a chance, in the midst of all these `given' things, to wonder by whom
they are `given'.....we (need to) learn that the giver of all things
dwells within us. This is a truth which in the face of all evidence, in
the greatest things as in the smallest, is never known, although it is
often so very necessary, indeed vital, for us to know it."
C G Jung CW vol 11
para 841
The Soul
" Were it not a fact of experience that supreme values reside in the
soul, psychology would not interest me in the least, for the soul would
then be nothing but a miserable vapor. I know, however, from hundredfold
experience that it is nothing of the sort, but on the contrary contains
the equivalents of everything that has been formulated in dogma and a
good deal more, which is just what enables it to be an eye destined to
behold the light. This requires limitless range and unfathomable depth
of vision. I have been accused of deifying the soul. Not I but God
Himself deified it."
Psychology and
Alchemy ( 1944 ) pg. 14
The Psyche as Pivot
" The psyche is the world's pivot: not only is the one great
condition for the existence of a world at all, it is also an
intervention in the existing natural order, and no one can say with
certainty where this intervention will finally end."
C G Jung: CW vol 8, para 423
The
achievements
which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of
personality
From
the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to
die with life.
The
images
of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man.
Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility,
deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on
his life.
An
inflated consciousness
is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but
its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable
of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right
conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore
cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that
must strike it dead.
Even
a happy life
cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy
would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far
better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Everything
that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
Knowledge
rests
not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Masses
are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
There
is
no coming to consciousness without pain.
The
man
who promises everything is sure to fulfill 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.
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.
If
one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The
wine
of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it
grows turbid.
“...Astrology
represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of
antiquity”....
The
collective unconscious...appears to consist of mythological motifs or
primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its
real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort
of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most
clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally
chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This
explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These
influences are nothing but unconscious, introspective perceptions of the
collective unconscious.
We
are
born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of
wine we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are
born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything else.
