"As far as we can discern, the..." - Quote by Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.”
“While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.”
“Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.”
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“Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.”
“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
More on Existence
“Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.”
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”