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Love breaks down separation because we want to be one with the person we love. If we love God, we want to become one with Him. St. Dimitri of Rostov wrote, “No unity with God is possible without an exceeding great love.” Loving and joining
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“Looking back on his long life as a psychologist, Jung confessed that the death of the poet had to be the sacrifice required to create his psychology.”
― Leaning Toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life
― Leaning Toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life
“There is, therefore, no logical inconsistency between seeking the numinous through psychological individuation or by immersion in any Eastern practice; that greater dimension of human potential lies in both. It explains so clearly why Jung turned to the East for analogies to explain the Self. Eastern practices and Jungian psychoanalysis can then be said to naturally augment each other, as they turn the mind toward an exploration of inner truths, the only possibility for balance in an often dark and confused world.”
― Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts
― Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts
“And He is near also to you”
― Spiritual Diary
― Spiritual Diary
“If we are working with themes from a patient’s life which are determined by complexes”
― Father-Daughter, Mother-Son: Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes That Bind Us
― Father-Daughter, Mother-Son: Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes That Bind Us
“Jung, in this advice to Roland, was encouraging him to submit himself to a spiritual principle that would replace the ego as the center of his consciousness and to seek a transcendent center—which many call God, some call the Universe, Jungians call the Self, and A.A. refers to as the Higher Power.”
― The War Of The Gods In Addiction: C. G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Archetypal Evil
― The War Of The Gods In Addiction: C. G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Archetypal Evil
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