"As a plant produces its flower, so..." - Quote by Carl Jung
As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
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“Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.”
“Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.”
“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”
More on Symbols
“A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.”
“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, 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.”
“Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.”