"But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?"

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Source: Psychology and religion: west and east.

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, emphasizing the importance of the unconscious and archetypes.

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"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls."

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