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“Out of evil, much good has come to me. By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality - taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be - by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before.
I always thought that when we accepted things they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that one can assume and attitude towards them.
So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever alternating, and, in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me.
What a fool I was! How I tried to force everything to go according to way I thought it ought to.
an ex patient of C. G. Jung (Alchemical Studies, pg 47)”
― C.G. Jung

“I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk

“Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”
― Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections