Many / One
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"The opposites are necessarily of a characterilogical nature: the existence of a positive virtue implies victory over its opposite, the corresponding vice. Without its counterpart virtue would be pale, ineffective, and unreal." Mysterium Coniunctionis
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"God clothes himself in our human nature."
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"Every psychic phenomenon is compensated by its opposite, in agreement with the proverb, 'There is no misfortune so great that no good may come of it.'"
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"Nothing is achieved by merely negative criticism. It is justified only to the degree that it is creative."
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"All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. This is particularly true of religious ideas, but the central concepts of science, philosophy, and ethics are no exception to this rule. In their present form they are variants of archetypal ideas, created by consciously applying and adapting these ideas to reality. For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us." 'The Structure of the Psyche'
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"In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness. This gradually brings liberation from imprisonment in unconsciousness, and is therefore a bringer of light as well as of healing."
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"The physicist's models ultimately rest on the same archetypal foundations that also underlie the speculations of the theologian."
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“The spirit of life is not only indwelling in all living things, but immanent in everything that exists, as the world-soul.”
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"Like the related ideas of 'atman' and 'tao' in the East, the idea of the self is at least in part a product of cognition, grounded neither on faith nor on metaphysical speculation but on the experience that under certain conditions the unconscious spontaneously brings forth an archetypal symbol of wholeness."
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"In the symbol the WORLD ITSELF is speaking."
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"Mathematics has more than once proved that its purely logical constructions which transcend all experience subsequently coincided with the behaviour of things. This, like the events I call synchronistic, points to a profound harmony between all forms of existence."
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"God made man to partake of his glory and created him in his image."
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"The archetypes…are to be understood as inborn modes of functioning that constitute, in their totality, man's nature."
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"Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
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"Let thy imagination be guided wholly by nature. And observe according to nature, through whom the substances regenerate themselves in the ..earth. And imagine this with true and not with fantastic imagination." Rosarium philosophorum, Art. Aurif., II, p. 214 (medieval alchemical text),
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“Everything is connected with everything else and therefore, despite their multifarious modes of manifestation, they are at bottom a unity.”
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"Just as conscious apprehension gives our actions form and direction, so unconscious apprehension through the archetype determines the form and direction of instinct."
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"The power of God reveals itself not only in the realm of the spirit, but in the fierce animality of nature both within man and outside him."
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"The presence of God, curiously enough, always coincides with a time of great distress."
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"Myth is not fiction; it consists of facts that are continually repeated and can be observed over and over again."
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"The imagination is to be understood as the real and literal power to create images (Einbildungskraft = imagination) – the classical use of the word in contrast to 'phantasia', which means a mere 'conceit' in the sense of insubstantial thought….Imagination is the active evocation of inner images, an authentic feat of thought or ideation, which does not spin aimless and groundless fantasies 'into the blue' – does not, that is to say, just play with its objects, but tries to grasp the inner facts and portray them in images true to their nature."
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