"When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow."
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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
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"Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it."
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"It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history."
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"The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life."
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"Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights."
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"The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement."
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"The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice"
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"Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses"
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"Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair."
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"The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure."
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"All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes."
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"The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals."
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"Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious."
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"Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking."
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"There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance."
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"The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium."
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"It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind."
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"A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found."
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"As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom."
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