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“Do you call light what we men call the worst darkness?”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Darkness, God, Gossip, Light, Theology
“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Alone, Love, Solitude
“You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your own heinous and devilish hand that inflicts the suffering on you, but not your brother, who wrestles with his own devils.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Abyss, Connectionism, Evil, Horror, One Body, Relationalism, Suffering, Terror
“We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Active Nihilism, Creation, Grounding The Void, Meaning
“The spirit of this time considers itself extremely clever, like every such spirit of the time. But wisdom is simpleminded, not just simple. Because of this, the clever person mocks wisdom, since mockery is his weapon. He uses the pointed, poisonous weapon, because he is struck by naive wisdom. If he were not struck, he would not need the weapon. Only in the desert do we become aware of our terrible simplemindedness, but we are afraid of admitting it. That is why we are scornful. But mockery does not attain simplemindedness. The mockery falls on the mocker, and in the desert where no one hears and answers, he suffocates from his own scorn.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Desert, Ego, Mockery, Negativity, Scorn
“The God is where you are not.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Deferral, God, Theology, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The spirit of the depths taught me to say: 'I am the servant of a child.' Through this dictum I learn above all the most extreme humility, as what I most need.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Child God, Humility
“Believe me: It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Learning, Path, Relativity, Teaching, Truth
“'No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries ? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back, and if you were fettered to the world of this time with iron, the call of the desert would break all chains. Truly, I prepare you for solitude.'”
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Tagged: Chains, Desert, Sacrifice, Solitude
“For the sake of my human weakness, the spirit of the depths gave me this word. Yet this word is also superfluous, since I do not speak it freely, but because I must. I speak because the spirit robs me of joy and life if I do not speak. I am the serf who brings it and does not know what he carries in his hand. It would burn his hands if he did not place it where his master orders him to lay it. ”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book
Tagged: Language Serf, Muse