"Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know."
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"The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment."
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"People cannot stand too much Reality."
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"How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?"
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"The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life."
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"People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind."
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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
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"Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies."
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"Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself."
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"A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience."
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"But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?"
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"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."
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"My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth."
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"Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!"
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"I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!"
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"The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness."
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"There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes"
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"The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams."
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"Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations."
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"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
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