Jung's Liber Novus (the Red Book), free download from
internet archive.
"The supreme meaning is not a meaning and not an absurdity, it is image and force in one, magnificence and force together.
The supreme meaning is the beginning and the end.
The image of God has a shadow.
The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow.
The shadow is nonsense. It lacks force and has no continued existence through itself.
But nonsense is the inseparable and undying brother of the supreme meaning."
"Who knows the way to the eternally fruitful climes of the soul?
You seek the way through mere appearances, you study books and give ear to all kinds of opinion.
What good is all that? There is only one way and that is your way.” You seek the path? I warn you away from my own.
It can also be the wrong way for you. May each go his own way. I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you.
You are no longer little children.”
"Laws and teachings held in common compel people to solitude, so that they may escape the pressure of undesirable contact,
but solitude makes people hostile and venomous.
Therefore give people dignity and let each of them stand apart, so that each may find his own fellowship and love it.
Power stands against power, contempt against contempt, love against love.
Give humanity dignity, and trust that life will find the better way.”
“The one eye of the Godhead is blind,
the one ear of the Godhead is deaf,
the order of its being is crossed by chaos.
So be patient with the crippledness of the world and
do not overvalue its consummate beauty."
"scholarliness is insufficient if one wants to become a “knower of the human soul.”
" To do this, one has to hang up exact science and put away the scholar’s gown, say farewell to the study and wander with human heart through the world,
through the horror of prisons, mad houses and hospitals, through drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling dens, through the salons of elegant society, the stock exchanges,
to experience love, hate and passion in every form in one’s body”
@holon42 I have a copy of this book, I look at the pictures.. thank you for the exerpt
@holon42 Dreaming the unconscious
that's where it all begins.
"“Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.
Woe betide those who live by way of examples! Life is not with them.
If you live according to an example, you thus live the life of that example, but who should live your own life if not yourself?
So live yourselves.”
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