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| "There are many spirits, both light and dark. We should, therefore,
be prepared to accept the view that spirit is not absolute, but something
relative that needs completing and perfecting through life." ...Spirit
and Life |
| "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but
by making the darkness conscious. The task of midlife is not to look into
the light, but to bring light into the darkness. The latter procedure,
however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular." ... Modern Man in Search of a Soul |
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"Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality;
it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality."
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"All esoteric teachings seek to apprehend the unseen happenings in
the psyche, and all claim supreme authority for themselves. What is true
of primitive lore is true in even higher degree of the ruling world religions.
They contain a revealed knowledge that was originally hidden, and they
set forth the secrets of the soul in glorious images." ... The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
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"Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the
crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce,
but which produce themselves and have their own life. Philemon represented
a force which was not myself. In my fantasies I held conversations with
him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. For I observed
clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. . . . Psychologically, Philemon
represented superior insight. He was a mysterious figure to me. At times
he seemed to me quite real, as if he were a living personality. I went
walking up and down the garden with him, and to me he was what the Indians
call a guru ... Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
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| "To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.
Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly
between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant by the self.
Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself
from two sides and thus gets in the middle." Civilization in Transition |
| "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is
to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. " Memories, Dreams, Reflections |
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