Like any archetype, the essential nature of the self is unknowable

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What happens within oneself when one integrates previously unconscious contents

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You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

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For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear.

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The greatest danger about unconsciousness is proneness to suggestion.

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1934 5 December LECTURE 9 Zarathustra Seminar

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All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

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The puer rides through the space of the psyche like a new star in the heavens.

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The hallmarks of spirit are, firstly, the principle of spontaneous movement and activity

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Unconsciousness is the primal sin, evil itself, for the Logos.

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Jung’s psychology, medicine, music and the arts, Zen practice would become part of the foundation of our marriage and family life

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Is there any trickery on earth which could have prevented Mozart or Beethoven from creating?

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This archetype is not merely a static image, but dynamic, full of movement.

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The significance of the old taboo customs is to be sought along two avenues of approach.

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A dream, like every element in the psychic structure, is a product of the total psyche.

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Vajra means thunderbolt or diamond (vaj, hard; ra, wedge). Sattva, i.e., an entity, a being.

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Thank God, my dreams provided the opportunity to meet with Jung.

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You may recall that these three eyes correspond to the three worlds:

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Jung: ” … Whoever has a claim on another cannot fulfill his own.

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For it all how depends how we look at things, and not on they are in themselves.

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Not much courage was needed to go ahead with my talk at the Club on the Tarot,

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1935 5 June LECTURE 5 Zarathustra Seminar

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Aion, because everywhere creation occurs, time is also there.

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I have said enough to make it very clear that active imagination is no lighthearted pastime.

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Journal Continued October 31, 1956

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Seek life humbly! Beware, it wants to find soil in you!

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Men get hypnotized only by the sexual character of this eros, but it’s not sexual at all.

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F.S. C. Northrup, Arnold J. Toynbee, John M. Billinsky Memorials to C.G. Jung

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When I visited Jung for the first time in the new year, I was touched by how loving and caring he was.

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As Jung has said, “The chief thing about the unconscious is that it is unconscious!”

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Lastly, he [Jung] gave me a small, age-old book on geomancy to take home with me and study.

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The children also slept badly. Agathli saw a ghost.

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The archetypal forms behind all myths belong to the mystery of the creative ground of everything that is.

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Man doesn’t only grow from within himself for he is also creative from within himself.

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“Whoever comes to me,” he would say, “takes his life in his hands.”

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1935 10 June LECTURE 7 Zarathustra Seminar

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Her reply was: “Those are not books. That is bread.”

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Dr. Jung was never caught by the picture of himself as an important man.

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C.G. Jung has almost become completely fictional.

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1940 15 NOVEMBER Lecture 2 Psychology and Yoga Meditation

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1935 13 March LECTURE 8 Zarathustra Seminar

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1934 9 May 1934 LECTURE 2 Zarathustra Seminar

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The image of God has a shadow.

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1935 27 Feb LECTURE 6 Zarathustra Seminar

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1935 20 Feb LECTURE 5 Zarathustra Seminar

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A psychology that satisfies the intellect alone can never be practical,

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1935 6 March LECTURE 7 Zarathustra Seminar

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