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“What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, Individuation in Fairy Tales

“It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.”
― Nick Cave

“For if collective material is completely contradictory, if our
basic ethical disposition is completely contradictory, only then is it possible for
us to have an individual, responsible, free conscious superstructure over those
basic opposites.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

“Only by sacrificing what we have can we know what we have. Real sacrifice is made with the same definiteness and lack of bargaining that is involved in throwing something away We can do this only if we are forced by a greater power in us - a power stronger than the ego - that gives us the necessary strength. We experience this power as an inner imperative that tells us that we "must." In Jungian psychology we understand that as a message from the Self, the regulating center of the pysche. The sacrificer and what is sacrificed are one and the same: it is always the Self.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales