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Light Quotes by Carl Jung
- To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
- It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is…
- My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it…
- The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case,…
- Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
- Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness.…
- The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
- Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we…
- Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of…
- The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only…
- In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
- Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
- There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion
- A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose…
- With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the…
- There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One…
- Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and…
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann