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Carl Jung
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“All things proceed from the meditation of the One.”
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"There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, and, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them. It is a question neither of belief nor of knowledge, but of the agreement of our thinking with the primordial images of the unconscious. They are the unthinkable matrices of all our thought, no matter what our conscious mind may cogitate." 'The Stages of Life'
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"Every psychic phenomenon is compensated by its opposite, in agreement with the proverb, 'There is no misfortune so great that no good may come of it.'"
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"Man contains within himself a replica of the world…This is the microcosm in man."
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"The Word is incarnate in God's creatures, and there, in a manner of speaking, we may touch it with our hands." Orthelius, 'Epilogus et recapitulatio Orthelii'
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"Though there is only ONE truth it speaks in many tongues."
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"Beauty, greatness, and holiness…are vital realities without which human existence would be superlatively stupid."
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"The unity of the soul rests empirically on the basic psychic structure common to all souls, which, though not visible and tangible like the anatomical structure, is just as evident as it."
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"The Self which includes me includes many others also, for the unconscious does not belong to me and is not peculiar to me, but is everywhere."
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"Nothing is achieved by merely negative criticism. It is justified only to the degree that it is creative."
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"Religious symbols are phenomena of life, plain facts and not intellectual opinions."
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"Just a a 'door' opens to one who 'knocks' on it, or a 'way' opens out to the wayfarer who seeks it, so, when you relate to your own transcendental centre, you initiate a process of conscious development which leads to oneness and wholeness."
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"In myths and fairytales, as in dreams, the psyche tells its own story, and the interplay of the archetypes is revealed in its natural setting as 'formation, transformation/the eternal Mind's eternal recreation.'"
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"Let thy imagination be guided wholly by nature. And observe according to nature, through whom the substances regenerate themselves in the ..earth. And imagine this with true and not with fantastic imagination." Rosarium philosophorum, Art. Aurif., II, p. 214 (medieval alchemical text),
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"A knowledge of mythology is needed in order to grasp the meaning of a content deriving from the deeper levels of the psyche." 'The Structure of the Psyche'
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"The way in which man inwardly pictures the world is still, despite all differences of detail, as uniform and as regular as his instinctive actions."
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"Man must know something of God's nature and of metaphysical processes if he is to understand himself and thereby achieve gnosis of the Divine."
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"Nowhere are we closer to the sublime secret of all origination than in the recognition of our own selves, whom we always think we know already. Yet we know the immensities of space better than we know our own depths, where – even though we do not understand it – we can listen directly to the throb of creation itself." 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung'
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"That which brings division ultimately creates union."
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"And where would God's wholeness be if he could not be the 'wholly other'?"
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"The collective unconscious, as the ancestral heritage of possibilities of representation, is not individual but common to all, and perhaps even to all animals, and is the true basis of the individual psyche."
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“The ‘Tao Teh Ching (ch. 25) says of the Original Being: ‘There was something formless yet complete that existed before heaven and earth; without sound, without substance, dependent on nothing, unchanging, all pervading, unfailing. One may think of it as the mother of all things under heaven.’”
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"Man is an image of the great world, and is called the microcosm or litle world….Therefore, to know the heaven and earth of man, is the same as to have a full and complete knowledge of the whole world and of the things of nature." 'Theatrum Chemicum', VI
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"Wherever conscious life becomes one-sided or adopts a false attitude, these [archetypal] images instinctively rise to the surface in dreams and in the visions of artists and seers to restore the psychic balance, whether of the individual or of the epoch."
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"Everything has grown from this One, and through this One. It is the Uroboros, the serpent that fertilizes and gives birth to itself."
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