powerful quotes from his work on symbols :
[font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]“Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”[/font]
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[font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]“The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.”[/font][/font]
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[font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]“Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who was asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days while nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: "Nowadays there is now longer anybody who can bow low enough."[/font]
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[font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]This answer hits the nail on the head. We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. The Buddhist discards the world of unconscious fantasies as useless illusions; the Christian puts his Church and his Bible between himself and his unconscious; and the rational intellectual does not yet know that his consciousness is not his total psyche. This ignorance persists today in spite of the fact that for more than 70 years the unconscious has been a basic scientific concept that is indispensable to any serious psychological investigation.”[/font][/font][/font]
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[font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]“In order to understand the symbolic indications of the unconscious, one must be careful not to get outside oneself or "beside oneself," but to stay emotionally within oneself. Indeed, it is vitally important that the ego should continue to function in normal ways. Only if I remain an ordinary human being, conscious of my incompleteness, can I become receptive to the significant contents and processes of the unconscious. But how can a human being stand the tension of feeling himself at one with the whole universe, while at the same time he is only a miserable earthly human creature? If, on the one hand, I despise myself as merely a statistical cipher, my life has no meaning and is not worth living. But if, on the other hand, I feel myself to be part of something much greater, how am I to keep my feet on the ground? It is very difficult indeed to keep these inner opposites united within oneself without toppling over into one or the other extreme.”[/font][/font][/font][/font]
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[font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]and here it comes powerful quote !!![/font][/font][/font][/font]
[font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif][font=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]“Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilization. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organization disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present. In my opinion, faith does not exclude thought (which is man's strongest weapon), but unfortunately many believers seem to be so afraid of science (and incidentally of psychology) that they turn a blind eye to the numinous psychic powers that forever control man's fate. We have stripped all things of their mystery and numinosity; nothing is holy any longer.”[/font][/font][/font][/font][/font]
love on first sight !!!!!!!!
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