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I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

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Carl Jung's Popular Quotes

We discover ourselves through others.

- Carl Jung

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols.…

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What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

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Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

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The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

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