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Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes…
Jung (1916)[1]
The opus consists of three parts: insight, endurance and action…. It is conflicts of duty that make endurance and action so difficult.
Jung (1945)[2]
The question is, of course, what do you feel to be your task? Where the fear, there is your task!
Jung (1956)[3]
Since man’s nature is temperamentally set against wisdom, it is incumbent upon us to pay its price by what seems foolish to us.
Jung (1960)[4]
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books…
Jung (1947)[5]
It is always important to have something to bring into a relationship, and solitude is often the means by which you acquire it.
Jung (1960)[6]
Where you are not conscious, there can obviously be no freedom. Through the analysis of the unconscious, you increase the amount of freedom….
Jung (1953)[7]
Some of Jung’s most accessible prose, from a layman’s point of view, is found in the wealth of letters he wrote in reply to people who wrote to him from all over the world. Aside from fleshing out Jung the man, his letters offer us a glimpse into what the path of individuation looked like, from his perspective. The 1,219 pages of letters also provide us with a rich trove of tips for living. In this essay, I’ve picked out excerpts from the most relevant of Jung’s letters, for insights into what he saw as the challenges, the aids and the rewards that are a part of the journey to individuation. :arrow: :arrow:
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