“We solve those riddles from which we suffer, but not those which please us.”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Ethics, Life Ethics, Riddles, Suffering
“Your Hell is made up of all the things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and a kick of the foot. When you step into your own Hell, never think that you come like one suffering in beauty, or as a proud pariah, but you come like a stupid and curious fool and gaze in wonder at th…”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Hell, Unknown Repercussions
“The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom.”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Errors = Portals Of Discovery, Soul, Wisdom, Wrong Is Right
“You will recall your femininity. It may seem to you then as if you were unmanly, stupid, and feminine so to speak. But you must accept the ridiculous, otherwise you will suffer distress, and there will come a time, when you are least observant, when it will suddenly round on you and make you ridicul…”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Crossdressing, Gender Relations, Gender Slavery, Masculinity
“Do you call light what we men call the worst darkness?”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Darkness, God, Gossip, Light, Theology
“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Alone, Love, Solitude
“You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your…”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Abyss, Connectionism, Evil, Horror, One Body
“We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it.”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Active Nihilism, Creation, Grounding The Void, Meaning
“The spirit of this time considers itself extremely clever, like every such spirit of the time. But wisdom is simpleminded, not just simple. Because of this, the clever person mocks wisdom, since mockery is his weapon. He uses the pointed, poisonous weapon, because he is struck by naive wisdom. If he…”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Desert, Ego, Mockery, Negativity, Scorn
“The God is where you are not.”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Deferral, God, Theology, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The spirit of the depths taught me to say: 'I am the servant of a child.' Through this dictum I learn above all the most extreme humility, as what I most need.”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Child God, Humility
“Believe me: It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws…”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Learning, Path, Relativity, Teaching, Truth
“'No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and dr…”— Carl Jung, amazon.comTagged: Chains, Desert, Sacrifice, Solitude