Learn your theories well but put them aside when you confront the mystery of the living soul.

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About Carl Jung

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Carl Gustav Jung ( YUUNG; Swiss Standard German: [ˈkarl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of...

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Science . . . is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

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It seems that it is only the recent West that has deemed it unnecessary to "initiate" young men. Otherwise, culture after culture felt that if the young man were not introduced to "the mysteries," he would not know what to do with his pain and would almost always abuse his power. It looks like they were right.

—Richard Rohr

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery.

—Laurens Van der Post

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

—Francis Bacon

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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