Category: Carl Jung Series
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A Paradox of the Heart
“Conviction easily turns into self-defense and is seduced into rigidity, and this is inimical to life. The test of a firm conviction is its elasticity and flexibility; like ever other exalted truth it thrives best on the admission of its errors. – Carl Jung Psychological Reflections Problems of Self Realization…
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The Life of the Spirit
For a long time the spirit, and the sufferings of the spirit, were positive values and the things more worth striving for in our peculiar Christian culture. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when spirit began to degenerate into intellect, did a reaction set in against the unbearable…
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Carl Jung Series: Suffering Together
In the case of psychological suffering, which always isolates the individual from the herd of so-called normal people, it is of the greatest importance to understand that the conflict is not a personal failure only, but at the same time a suffering common to all and a problem with which…
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Carl Jung Series: Human Together
“There would appear to be a sort of conscience in mankind which severely punishes every one who does not somehow and at some time, at whatever cost to his virtuous pride, cease to defend and assert himself, and instead confess himself fallible and human. Until he can do this, an…
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Carl Jung Series: Be Convinced
“Be the man through whom you wish to influence others. Mere talk has always been counted hollow, and there is not trick, however artful, by which this simple truth can be evaded in the long run. The fact of being convinced and no the thing we are convinced of —…
KEEP THE OLD WARM 