Jackson, Jesse.

Renew your hope; love your family.  Raise your children, don't abandon them.  Cats raise kittens.  Dogs raise puppies.  Eagles raise their eaglets.  Surely man can raise his babies.
   You have not earned the right not to raise your children!  You have not earned the right to do less than your best!  Though your knees may buckle sometimes, you never earn the right to surrender!

in:  Simon, Roger.  Los Angeles Times, (June 5, 1988), p. ?

in:  Christianity Today (November 18, 1988), p. 40.

CATS; CHILDREN; DOGS; EAGLES; FAMILIES; HUMANS; PARENTS - RESPONSIBILITIES; SURRENDER

19881201

Jackson, Robert H.

A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare to doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.

American Communications Association v Doud (339 US 442 (1950) [U.S. Supreme Court Decision]).

CITIZENS - RESPONSIBILITIES; FREEDOM; LEGISLATURES; MAJORITIES; REASONING

19881028

Jaffé, Aniela.

The symbol is an object of the known world hinting at something unknown; it is the known expressing the life and sense of the inexpressible.  But in merely abstract paintings, the world of the known has completely vanished.  Nothing is left to form a bridge to the unknown.

"Symbolism in the Visual Arts", p. 310

in C. G. Jung, Man and His Symbols (PJ187, 1964).

ABSTRACT ART; SYMBOLS - DEFINITION; UNKNOWN, THE

19830000

James, Henry.

I am that queer monster, the artist, an obstinate finality, an inexhaustible sensibility.

from a letter to Henry Adams, quoted in:

Dictionary of Literary Biography (vol. 12), p. ?.

ARTISTS - DEFINITIONS; AUTHORS - DEFINITIONS

19830400

James, William.

...the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

The Varieties of Relgious Experience (1961), p. 59, quoted in:

Margaret Furse, Mysticism: Window on a World View (FIUGEN, 1977), p. 33.

RELIGION - DEFINITIONS; GOOD

19961013

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

The Varieties of Relgious Experience (HM140, Longmans Green, 1908), p. 456.

EXPERIENCE; FACTS; PHILOSOPHY; TRUTH

20021117

In the religious sphere, in particular, belief that formulas are true can never wholly take the place of personal experience.

The Varieties of Relgious Experience (HM140, Longmans Green, 1908), p. 457.

BELIEF; DOGMAS; FORMULAS; EXPERIENCE; RELIGION

20021117

Japanese proverbs.

In a line of nails, the one that stands out will be the first to get hit by the hammer.

Quoted by: Ellison, Carol. "Why Japan Can't Write Software."

in: PC/Computing December, 1988), p. 119.

ATTENTION; CONFORMITY; PROVERBS - JAPAN

19891208

Jay, John.

The pride of states, as well as of men, naturally disposes them to justify all their actions, and opposes them acknowledging, correcting, or repairing their errors and offenses.

Federalist, No. 3: The Same Subject Continued:  Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence (1787). (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fedpapers.html).

PRIDE; COUNTRIES; PERSONS; JUSTIFICATION OF ACTIONS; OFFENSES

20001107

Jefferson, Thomas. 

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.  But I should mean that every man should receive those papers, and be capable of reading them.

Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787;

in: Gerhart, Eugene C.,ed.  Quote It! (FIUL, Clark Boardman Co, 1969), p. 531.

EDUCATION; GOVERNMENT; MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS

19881028

Nothing then is unchangeable but the inalienable rights of man.

In: Fromm, Erich  Escape from Freedom. (Avon, 1969), p. v.

CHANGE; RIGHTS OF MAN

19760000

I think with you, that it is a good world on the whole; that it has been framed on a principle benevolence, and more pleasure than pain dealt out to us.

Letter to John Adams, April 8, 1816,

in:  Speaker's Almanac.

GOOD & EVIL; PAIN; PLEASURE; WORLD, THE

19840531

Jennings, Sue.

However, the essential themes are the same even though Liz may write from a more theological stance and I from a more anthropological perspective; we are both in complete agreement that / dominant Christian symbols are rooted in ancient history and became integrated into Christianity with added meaning and values.

"Foreword,"

in: Rees, Elizabeth.  Christian Symbols, Ancient Rootst.  (PR007, Jessica Kingsley, 1997), pp. 9-10.

CHRISTIANITY—SYMBOLS; SYMBOLS—ANTECEDANTS; SYMBOLS—DEVELOPMENT

20060302

Jeremias, Joachim.

To share in the atoning death of Jesus and to become part of the redeemed community--that is, according to Paul, the gift of the Eucharist.

The Eucharistic Words of Jesus, (MHC, ) p. 237.

CHURCH, THE; JESUS THE CHRIST; LORD'S SUPPER

19731100

It becomes clear that Jesus was never tired of expressing the central ideas of his message in constantly changing images.

Rediscovering the Parables, p. 89.

In:  PG252, p. 22.

JESUS THE CHRIST - TEACHINGS

19750000

Johnson, L. D.

If God is God then, whether he intervenes in our affairs in accordance with natural law or by superseding it, is less significant that the fact that he does.

An Introduction to the Bible, (PG208, Convention Pr., ), p. 14.

GOD; GOD'S ACTIONS; LAWS OF NATURE; MIRACLES; PHYSICS

19830000

Johnson, Robert A.

You don't have to fully understand many things in this world to learn from them.

Balancing Heaven and Earth..  (FIUGL, HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), p. 48.

LEARNING; UNDERSTANDING

20060319

It is probably true that we live in a universe with more meaning in it than we can comprehend or even tolerate.  Life is not meaningless; it is overflowing with meaning, pattern, and connections

Balancing Heaven and Earth..  (FIUGL, HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), p. 103.

CONNECTIONS; LIFE - MEANING; MEANING; MEANINGLESSNESS; PATTERNS

20060407

Joseph, (Chief.)

You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented penned and denied liberty to go where he pleases....If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented nor will he grow or prosper.

Letter to President Hayes, the cabinet, and Congress, January 14, 1879;

in:  McLuhan, T.C.  Touch the Earth, (HJ415, ), p. 125.

AMERICAN INDIANS; FREEDOM; NEZ PERCE; PROSPERITY; RESERVATIONS, INDIAN

19861005

Jung, C. G.

The only unbearable torture is the torture of not understanding.

In:  Hannah, Barbara.  Jung:  His Life & Work.  (FIUGL, Shambhala, 1991), p. 75.

TORTURES; UNDERSTANDING

20050322

Science is not indeed a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when it is taken as an end in itself.

Alchemical Studies, (FIU, Princeton U. Pr., 1967), p. 6.

SCIENCE

20030214

Science is the tool of the Western mind,.... It is part and parcel of / our understanding, and it obscures our insight only when it claims that the understanding it conveys is the only kind there is.

Alchemical Studies, (FIU, Princeton U. Pr., 1967), pp. 6-7.

SCIENCE - ALTERNATIVES; SCIENCE - LIMITATIONS; WESTERN THOUGHT - SCIENCE

20030214

Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when spirit began to degenerate into intellect, did a reaction set in against the unbearable dominance of intellectualism, and this led to the unpardonable mistake of confusing intellect with spirit and blaming the latter for the misdeeds of the former.

Alchemical Studies, (FIU, Princeton U. Pr., 1967), p. 9.

INTELLECT; INTELLECTUALISM; SCIENCE; SPIRIT

20030214

...it must be pointed out that just as the human body shows a common anatomy over and above all racial differences, so, too, the human psyche possesses a common substratum transcending all differences in culture and consciousness.  I have called this substratum the collective unconsciousness.

Alchemical Studies, (FIU, Princeton U. Pr., 1967), p. 11.

COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS - UNIVERSALITIES; UNCONSCIOUSNESS

20030222

It would be simple enough, if only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things.

Alchemical Studies, (FIU, Princeton U. Pr., 1967), p. 16.

SIMPLICITY

20030222

Miracles appeal only to the understanding of those who cannot perceive the meaning.  They are mere substitutes for the not understood reality of the spirit.

Answer to Job. (PJ287, PUP, 1952), p. xii.

MEANING; MIRACLES; REALITY; SPIRIT; UNDERSTANDING

19871017

The symbol is the primitive exponent of the unconscious, but at the same time an idea that corresponds to the highest intuitions of the conscious mind.

"Commentary on 'The Secret of the Golden Flower," ¶44;

In:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, PUP, 1978), p. 30.

CONSCIOUSNESS; INTUITIONS; SYMBOLS - DEFINITIONS; UNCONSCIOUS

20051024

The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus, but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor's consulting room, or disorders the brains of politicians and journalists who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.

"Commentary on 'The Secret of the Golden Flower," ¶54;

In:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, PUP, 1978), p. 39.

DISEASES; DISORDERS; EPIDEMICS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GODS; JOURNALISTS; OLYMPUS; PATIENTS; POLITICIANS; ZEUS

20051025

Culture is our only weapon against the fearful danger of mass-mindedness.

Epilogue to "Essays on Contemporary Events," (1947),

IN:  Civilization in Transition, Collected Works, v. X.*nbsp; (FIUGL; Princeton, NJ: PUP, ), ¶ 474;

IN:  Hannah, Barbara.  Jung:  His Life & Work.  (FIUGL, Shambhala, 1991), p. 213.

CULTURE; DANGERS; MASS MINDEDNESS; MOB MENTALITIES

20050401

A creed gives expression to a definite collective belief, whereas the word religion  expresses a subjective relationship to certain metaphysical, extramundane factors.

Collected Works, X, p. 257.

in:  Wallace B. Clift, Jung and Christianity, (PK274, Crossroad, 1982), p. 119.

BELIEFS; CREEDS; RELIGION

19840919

The language of sex is hardly more significant than any other symbolical means of expression.  This type of explanation is, at bottom, just as mythological and rationalistic as the technological fables about the nature and purpose of Ufos.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), p. 27.

SEXUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF DREAMS; UFOS-PSYCHOLOGY; UFOS - TECHNOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS

20000108

Nowadays people who have an experience of this kind are more likely to go running to the doctor or psychiatrist than to the theologian.  I have more than once been consulted by people who were terrified by their dreams and visions.  They took them for symptoms of mental illness...whereas in reality they were "dreams sent by God," real and genuine religious experiences that collided with a mind unprepared, ignorant, and profoundly prejudiced.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), p. 32.

MENTAL ILLNESS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY & RELIGION; RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

20000108

Our civilization bothers us less with food taboos than with sexual restrictions.  In modern society these have come to play the role of an injured deity that is getting its own back in every sphere of human activity, including psychology, where it would reduce "spirit" to sexual repression.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), p. 37.

SEXUAL RESTRICTIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS

20000108

His sudden and unusual decision..comes, rather, into the category of meaninful coincidences, which statistical prejudice dismisses as irrelevant.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), p. 55.

SCIENTIFIC THEORY--CRITICISM; STATISICAL METHODS--PREJUDICE; SYNCHRONISM (PSYCHOLOGY)

20010619

We avoid as long as possible making ourselves conscious of those things which wholeness still lacks, thus preventing ourselves from becoming conscious of the self and preparing for death.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), p. 61.

DEATH; LACK (PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS); PERSONALITY--WEAKNESSES; SELF; WHOLENESS

20010619

...a marital union.  This symbolism, as we know, also applies to death as a final realization of wholeness.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), p. 63.

DEATH; MARRIAGE--SYMBOLISM; SYMBOLS--MARRIAGE; WHOLENESS

20010619

The Middle Ages, antiquity, and prehistory have not died out, as the "enlightened" suppose, but live on merrily in large sections of the population.  Mythology and magic flourish as ever in our midst and are unknown only to those whose rationalistic / education has alienated them from their roots.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), pp. 63-64.

ENLIGHTENED THOUGHT; MAGIC; MYTHOLOGY; BELIEFS, PRIMITIVE; EDUCATION, RATIONALIST; TWENTIETH CENTURY

20010619

The scientist's interpretation is too easily restricted to the common, the probable, the average, for that is after all the basis of every empirical science.  Nevertheless a basis has little meaning unless something can be / erected upon it that leaves room for the exceptional and extraordinary.

Flying Saucers (HP093, 1978), pp. 65-66.

AVERAGE, THE; SCIENCE, EMPIRICAL; EXCEPTIONAL, THE; PROBABILITY

20010619

An incalculable amount of human effort is directed to combating / and restricting the nuisance or danger represented by chance.  Theoretical considerations of cause and effect often look pale and dusty in comparison to the practical results of chance.

"Forward";

in:  The I Ching, or Book of Changes (H????), Richard Wilhelm translation, pp. ii-iii.

CAUSE & EFFECT; CHANCE; HUMAN EFFORTS

n.d.

Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning.  It has a wider "unconscious" aspect that is never precisely defined or fully explained.... As the mind explores the symbols it is led to ideas that lie beyond the grasp of reason.

Man and His Symbols (PJ187,), p. 4.

REASON - LIMITS; SYMBOLS - DEFINITIONS

19870000

The Sign is always less than the concept it represents, while a symbol always stands for something more than its obvious and immediate meaning.  Symbols, moreover, are natural and spontaneous products.

Man and His Symbols (PJ187,), p. 41.

REASON - LIMITS; SYMBOLS - DEFINITIONS

19870000

"Deeds" were never invented, they were done; thoughts, on the other hand, are a relatively late discovery of man.  First he was moved to deeds by unconscious factors; it was only a long time afterward that he began to reflect upon the auses that had moved him; and it took him a very long time indeed to arrive at the preposterous idea that he must have moved himself--his mind being unable to identify any other motivating force than his own.

Man and His Symbols (PJ187,), p. 70.

DEEDS; MOTIVATIONS; REFLECTIONS; THOUGHTS

19870000

The tempo of deveolopment of consciousness through science and technology was too rapid and left the unconscious, which could no longer keep up with it, far behind, thereby forcing it into a defensive position which expresses itself in a universal will to destruction.

"A Study in the Process of Individuation,"

Mandala Symbolism (PJ288,), p. 65.

DESTRUCTION; PROGRESS; SELF-DESTRUCTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY

19860414

I see no sense in publishing a condensation of papers in which I went to so much trouble to discuss the subject in detail.  I should have to omit all my evidence and rely on a type of categorical statement which would not make my results any easier to understand.  The characteristic ruminant activity of ungulate animals, which consists in the regurgitation of what has already been chewed over, is anything but stimulating to my appetite....

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. xiii.

ABSTRACTING; CONDENSING ONE'S WRITING; COWS; EVIDENCE

19840700

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.  Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjective variety of an individual life.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 3.

AVERAGES; EXPERIENCE; FACTS; MYTHS; SCIENCE - LIMITATIONS

19840700

I cannot employ the language of science to trace this process of growth in myself, for I cannot experience myself as a scientific problem.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 3.

OBJECTIVITY; SOCIAL SCIENCES

19840700

I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know.  The naive person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one's fellows about anything that is unknown to them.  They pardon such ruthless behavior / only in a writer, journalist, or poet.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), pp. 103-4.

COMMUNICATION; IGNORANCE; INSULTS; KNOWLEDGE; POETS; UNKNOWN, THE

19840700

At bottom we discover nothing new and unknown in the mentally ill; rather, we encounter the substratum of our own natures.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 127.

HUMAN NATURE; INSANITY

19840700

The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 137.

JEALOUSY; LOVE

19840700

But to live and experience symbols presupposes a vital participation on the part of the believer, and only too often this is lacking in people today.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 140.

FAITH; PARTICIPATION; RELIGION; SYMBOLS

19840700

There was nothing to be done about this one-sidedness of Freud's.  Perhaps some inner experience of his own might have opened his eyes; but then his intellect would have reduced any such experience to "mere sexuality" or "psychosexuality."  He remained the victim of the one aspect he could recognize, and for that reason I see him as a tragic figure; for he was a great man, and what is more, a man in the grip of his daimon.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 153.

FREUD, SIGMUND; SEXUALITY - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

19840700

The intellect, of course, would like to arrogate to itself some scientific, physical knowledge of the affair [of parapyschological phenomena], or preferably, to write the whole thing off as a violation of the rules.  But what a dreary world it would be if the rules were not violated sometimes!

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 191.

INTELLECT; PARASYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RULES

19840700

He [Jesus] must have been a person of singular gifts to have been able so completely to express and to represent the general, though unconscious, expectations of his age.  No one else could have been the bearer of such a meassage; it was possible only for this particular man Jesus.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 213.

EXPECTATIONS; JESUS THE CHRIST - MESSAGE

19840700

...the god of time who will inevitably chop into the bits and pieces of days, hours, iminutes, and seconds that duration which is still the closest thing to eternity.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 240.

DURATION; ETERNITY; DAYS; HOURS; MINUTES; SECONDS; TIME (CHRONOS)

19840714

...that man is indispensible for the completion of creation; that in fact, he himself is the second creator of the world, who alone has given to the world its objective existence--without which, unheard, unseen, and silently eating, giving birth, dying,...it would have gone on in the profoundest night of non-being down to its unknown end.  Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensible place in the great process of being.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 256.

BEING; CREATION; CREATION, CONTINUING; EXISTENCE, OBJECTIVE; MAN - PURPOSE; MEANING; NON-BEING; WORLD, PHYSICAL

19840730

I, on the other hand, wish to persist in the state of lively contemplation of nature and of the psychic images.  I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 276.

HUMANS; MIRACLES; NATURE; NIRVANA - CRITICISM; SELF; SOCIETY; WESTERN THOUGHT

19840731

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 297.

CERTAINTY; CHOICES

19840802

But when one follows the path of individuation, when one lives one's own life, one must take mistakes into the bargain; life would not be complete without them.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 297.

INDIVIDUATION; LIFE; MISTAKES

19840802

It is not that I wish we had a life after death.  In fact, I would prefer not to foster such ideas.  Still, I must state, to give reality its due, tha, without my doing anything about it, thoughts of this nature move about within me.  I can't say whether these thoughts are true or false, but I do know they are there, and can be given utterance, if I do not repress them out of some prejudice.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 299.

LIFE AFTER DEATH

19840805

...nowadays most people identify themselves almost exclusively with their consciousness, and imagine that they are only what they know about themselves.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 300.

CONSCIOUSNESS; IDENTITY; SELF IDENTITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY

19840805

Rationalism and doctrinarism are the disease of our time; they pretend to have all the answers.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 300.

ANSWERS; DISEASES; DOCTRINARISM; MODERN WORLD; POLITICS; RATIONALISM

19840805

Reason sets the boundaries far too narrowly for us, and would have us accept only the known--and that too with limitations--and live in a known framework, just as if we were sure how far life actually extends.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 302.

BOUNDARIES; LIFE; LIMITATIONS; REASON

19840809

Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism:  under its dominion the individual is pauperized.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 302.

ABSOLUTISM; INDIVIDUAL, THE; REASON

19840809

Hence it is that / the rationalists insist to this day that parapsychological experiences do not really exist; for thier world-view stands or falls by this question.  If such phenolomena occur at all, the rationalistic picture of the universe is invalid, because incomplete.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections  (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 304.

COSMOLOGIES; MODELS; PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RATIONALISM

19840809

I have been convinced that at least a part of our psychic existence is characterized by a relativity of space and time.  This relativity seems to increase, in proportion to the distance from consciousness, to an absolute condition of timelessness and spacelessness.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections.  (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 305.

CONSCIOUSNESS; RELATIVITY; SPACE; TIME

19840809

There does seem to be unlimited knowledge present in nature, it is true, but it can be comprehended by consciousness only when the time is ripe for it.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections.  (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 307.

KNOWLEDGE; TIME (KAIROS)

19840809

Only if we know that what truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests on futilities.  In the final analysis we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that life is wasted.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 325.

FUTILITY; INFINITE; MEANING; PRIORITIES

19840811

Our age has shifted all emphasis to the here and now, and thus brought about a daemonization of man and his world.  The phenomenon of dictators and all the misery they have wrought springs from the fact that man has been robbed of transcendence by the shortsightedness of the super-intellectuals.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections.  (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 326.

DICTATORS; HERE & NOW; INTELLECTUALS; TRANSCENDENCE; TWENTIETH CENTURY

19840811

Any biography of myself, must, I think, take account of the following reflections. It is true that they may well strike others as highly theoretical, but making "theory" of this sort is as much a part of me, as vital afunction of mine, as eating and drinking.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 327.

BIOGRAPHIES; IDEAS & THEORIES; JUNG, C.G.

19840811

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 329.

ADDICTION; ALCOHOL; IDEALISM; MORPHINE

19840812

I do not imagine that in my reflections on the meaning of man and his myth I have uttered a final truth....

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 339.

IDEAS & THEORIES; MAN; MEANING; MYTH; OPINIONS; TRUTH, ULTIMATE

19840818

For it is not that "God" is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man.  It is not we who invent myth, rather it speaks to us as a Word of God.  The Word of God comes to us, and we have no way of distinguishing whether and to what extent it is different from God.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973) p. 340.

GOD - REVELATION; GOD'S WORD; MAN; MYTH - FUNCTIONS; REVELATION

19840818

Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness.  Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.  No science will ever replace myth, and a myth cannot be made out of any science.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973) p. 340.

ENDURANCE; ILLNESS; LIFE - MEANING; MEANING; MYTH; OBJECTIVITY; SCIENCE.

19840818

There is no better means of intensifying the treasured feeling of individuality than the possession of a secret which the individual is pledged to guard.  The very beginnings of societal structures reveal the craving for secret organizations.  When no valid secrets really exist, mysteries are invented or contrived to which privileged initiates are admitted.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 342.

INDIVIDUALITY; MYSTERIES; SECRET ORGANIZATIONS; SECRETS; SOCIETY

19840820

Nonetheless it may be that for sufficient reasons a man feels he must set out on his own feet along the road to wider realms  It may be that in all the garbs, shapes, forms, modes, and manners of life offered to him he does not find what is peculiarly necessary for him. He will go along and be his own company.  He will serve as his own grousp, consisting of a variety of opinions and tendencies--which need not necessarily be marching in the same direction.  In fact he will be at odds with himself, and will find great difficulty in uniting his own multiplicity for purposes of common action.  Even if he is outwardly protected by the social forms of the intermediary stage [secret societies], he will have no defense against his inner multiplicity.  This disunion within himself may cause him to give up, to lapse into identity with his surroundings.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 343.

INDIVIDUAL, THE

19840820

The man, therefore, who , driven by his daimon, steps beyond the limits of the intermediary stage, truly enters the "untrodden, untreadable regions," where there are no charted ways and no shelter spreads a protecting roof over his head.  There are no precepts to guide him when he encounters an unforeseen situation--for example, a conflict of duties.  For the most part, these / sallies into no man's land last only as long as no such conflicts occur, and come swiftly to an end as soon as conflict is sniffed from afar.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), pp. 344-5.

CONFLICTS; DISCOVERY & EXPLORATION; INDIVIDUAL, THE

19840820

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 356.

ALONE; COMMUNICATION; LONELINESS

19840822

...and companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 356.

COMPANIONSHIP; IDENTITY; INDIVIDUALITY

19840822

I could never stop at anything once attained.  I had to hasten on, to catch up with my vision.  Since my contemporaries, understandably, could not perceive my vision, they saw only a fool rushing ahead.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 356.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS;FOOLS; JUNG, C.G.; VISION

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.A creative person has little power over his own life.  He is not free.  He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 357.

CREATIVITY; DEMONS; FREEDOM; MASTERS

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That alone is fixed and certain which is subject to change.

as "Basilides in Alexandria" in Memories, Dreams, Reflections (PJ178, Vintage, 1973), p. 379.

CERTAINTY; CHANGE

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All these guiding principals in therapy confront the doctor with important ethical duties which can be summed up in the single rule:  be the man through whom you wish to influence others.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul (PJ171, ), p. 51.

DOCTORS; INFLUENCE; THERAPY, PSYCHOLOGICAL

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Suffering that is not understood is hard to bear, while on the other hand it is often astounding to see how much a person can endure when he understands the why and the wherefore.  A philosophical or religious view of the world enables him to do this, and such views prove to be, at the very least, psychic methods of healing if not of salvation.

"On the Discourses of the Buddha" ¶1578

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), pp. 210-211.

COSMOLOGY; ENDURANCE; HEALING PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION; SALVATION; SUFFERING

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As the products of imagination are always in essence visual, their forms must, from the outset, have the character of images and moreover of typical images, which is why, following St Augustine, I call them "archetypes."

"Psychological Commentary on 'The Tibetal Book of the Dead,'" ¶845,

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p. 68.

ARCHETYPES; IMAGES, VISUAL; IMAGINATION

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Psychology therefore holds that the mind cannot establish or assert anything beyond itself.

"Psychological Commentary on 'The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation,'" ¶760 (1939)

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.104.

ASSERTIONS; MIND; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF

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Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have simply changed a symbol.

"Psychological Commentary on 'The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation,'" ¶763 (1939)

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.105.

ENERGY; GOD; MATTER; SYMBOLS - CHANGE; ULTIMATES

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Our natural science is the epitome of primitiave man's astonishing powers of observation.  We have added only a moderate amount of abstraction, for fear of being contadicted by the facts.  The East, on the other hand, cultivates the psychic aspect of primitivity together with an inordinate amount of abstraction.  Facts make excellent stories but not much more.

"Psychological Commentary on 'The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation,'" ¶800 (1939)

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.129.

ABSTRACT VS CONCRETE; FACTS; OBSERVATIONS; OCCIDENTALS; ORIENTALS; PRIMITIVE MENTALITY; THINKING, ABSTRACT

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But yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

"Psychological Commentary on 'The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation,'" ¶802 (1939)

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.129.

FIFTH AVENUE; FRAUDS, SPIRITUAL; MAYFAIR (LONDON); TELEPHONES; YOGA

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The intuitive mind is noted for its disregard of facts in favour of possibilities.

"Psychological Commentary on 'The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation,'" ¶804 (1939)

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.129.

FACTS; INTIUITION; MINDS, INTUITIVE; POSSIBLILITIES

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Myth, says a Church Father, is "what is believed always, everywhere, by everybody."; hence the man who thinks he can live without myth, or outside it, is an exception.  He is like one uprooted, having no true link either with the past...or yet with contemporary society.  He...lives a life of his own, sunk in a subjective mania of his own devising, which he believes to be the newly discovered truth.

"Forward to the Fourth (Swiss) Edition,"

Symbols of Transformation, 2nd.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1967), p. xxiv.

BELIEFS, COMMUNAL; CHURCH FATHERS; MYTHS - DEFINITIONS; PAST, THE; SELF DECEPTIONS; SUBJECTIVITY; TRUTH

20050324

As most people know, one of the basic principles of analytical psychology is that dream-images are to understood symbolically; that is to say, one must not take them literally, but must surmise a hidden meaning in them.

Symbols of Transformation, 2nd.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1967), p. 7.

ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY; DREAMS - INTERPRETATIONS; IMAGES - INTERPRETATIONS; MEANING; SYMBOLS - INTERPRETATIONS

20050324

The true genius nearly always intrudes and disturbs.  He speaks to a temporal world out of a world eternal.  Thus he says the wrong things at the right time.  Eternal truths are never true at any given moment in history....Yet the genuis is the healer of his time, because anything he reveals of eternal truth is healing.

"What India Can Teach Us," ¶1004,

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.98.

GENIUSES; HEALING; HISTORY; TRUTH; TRUTHS, ETERNAL

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Belief is a great thing, to be sure, but it is a substitute for a conscious reality which the Christians wisely relegate to a life in the heareafter.  This "hereafter" is really the intended future of mankind, anticipated by religious intuition.

"What India Can Teach Us," ¶1005,

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.98.

BELIEF; CHRISTIANITY; FAITH; FUTURE, THE; HEAVEN; HEREAFTER; INTUITION, RELIGIOUS; RELIGION

20060123

Both are necessary, for knowledge alone, like faith alone, is always insufficient.

"Yoga and the West," ¶864,

In his:  Psychology and the East.  (FIUGL, Princeton UP, 1978), p.80.

FAITH; KNOWLEDGE; RELIGION & SCIENCE

20060122

Juster, Norman.

Just because / you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right.

The Dodecahedron in: The Phantom Tollbooth (PN004, 1961), pp. 175-6.

CHOICES; RIGHT & WRONG

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