To give birth to the ancient in a new time is creation. This is the creation of the new, and that redeems me. Salvation is the resolution of the task. The task is to give birth to the old in a new time.
Carl Jung - Liber Novus, 311.
The world of the inner is as infinite as the world of the outer. Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the world through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds.
Liber Novus, 264.
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"In November of 1960, seven months before his death, C. G. Jung suffered what he called “the lowest ebb of feeling I ever experienced.” He explained the sentiment in a letter to Eugene Rolfe:
I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone. There are a few who understand this and that, but almost nobody sees the whole… I have failed in my foremost task: to open people’s eyes to the fact that man has a soul and there is a buried treasure in the field and that our religion and philosophy are in a lamentable state.
... He has not been wholly understood."
Lance S. Owens
http://www.gnosis.org/Foreword-Search-for-Roots.pdf
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only danger that exists is man himself — he is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man — far too little.
Psychological type is nothing static — it changes in the course of life.
FREEMAN: As the world becomes more technically efficient, it seems increasingly necessary for people to behave communally and collectively, now do you think it’s possible that the highest development of man may be to submerge his own individuality in a kind of collective consciousness?
JUNG: That’s hardly possible. I think there will be a reaction — a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn’t stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
"He could cook and he could smoke and he liked liquor and women and everything that is good in life. He was a wonderful terre-à-terre man. That's why I liked him. If he would not have been a sinner I couldn't have loved him so much as I do now." ~Gilles Quispel, Remembering Jung
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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""]phrase, denominate friendship love that is without wings, " L'amitie" est 1'amour sans ailes," meaning that it should be a permanent affection, and not easily to be obliterated. " Ova d'un ora, pane d'un di, vino d'un anno, amico di trenta," that is, eggs of an hour, bread of a day, wine of a year, but a friend of thirty years is best; and " Azeyte, y vino, y amigo antiguo," oil, wine, and friends improve by age. Friendship, Mon- taigne says, " unlike to love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the practice of it." And according to Sallust, " Idem velle et nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est," to have the same desires and dislikes, to love or hate the same persons, is the surest test of friendship. But instances of such exalted friendship, if they do exist, are very rare. " Tantum ego fucorum, tantum perfidiae in hominum arnicitiis reperio, non in his modo vulgaribus, verurn his quoque quas Pyladeas vocant, ut mihi jam non libeat novarum peri- culum facere" I find so much dissembling,
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Link to the complete PDF filehttp://www.jgsparks.net/folio/Mdr/FacetoFace.pdfFreeman: „And did you believe in God?” Jung: „Oh, yes” F: „And do you now believe in...