"Far from being a material world, this..." - Quote by Carl Jung
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even
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“Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.”
“The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.”
“One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.”
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“There's also a down side.”
“I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.”
“The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.”
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“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.”
“The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.”
“...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.”