"Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other..." ~CGJung, The Problem of the Attitude-Type, CW7  At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things -- but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears. ~C.G. Jung, Modern Man In Search of a Soul The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life. Whatever values in the visible world are destroyed by modern relativism, the psyche will produce their equivalents. ~C.G.Jung, Modern Man in Search Of a Soul The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. ~C.G.JUNG --Modern Man In Search Of A Soul The work of the poet comes to meet the spiritual need of the society in which he lives, and for this reason his work means more to him than his personal fate, whether he is aware of this or not. ~C.G. Jung, Modern Man In Search Of A Soul By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language. ~CGJUNG Spirit and Life, CW8, 1926, para 644, Ultimately, every individual life is at the same time the eternal life of the species. ~CG Jung Memories, Dreams, Reflections When we set out to interpret a dream, it is always helpful to ask: what conscious attitude does it compensate? ~C.G.Jung The Practical Use Of Dream Analysis Collected Works Vol. 16 The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains its equilibrium just as the body does. Every process that goes too far immediately and inevitably calls forth compensations, and without these there would be neither a normal metabolism nor a complete psyche. C.G.JUNG The Practical Use Of Dream Analysis,Collected Works Vol. 16 One thing we ought never forget: almost half our life is passed in a more or less unconscious state. The dream is specifically the utterance of the unconscious. ~CGJUNG CW16 ....only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life. Non-ambiguity and non-contradiction are one-sided and thus unsuitable to express the incomprehensible. ~CG Jung Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy, Collected Works Volume 12 The unconscious is not a demonical monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgement go, is completely neutral. It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases. ~C.G.Jung The Practical Use Of Dream Analysis, Collected Works Vol. 16 It has yet to be understood that the Mysterium Magnum is not only an actuality, but is first and foremost rooted in the human psyche. ~CG Jung Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy, Collected Works, Vol. 12 Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day. ~CGJUNG CW 16 The unconscious is a Janus-face: on one side its contents point back to a preconscious, prehistoric world of instinct, while on the other side it potentially anticipates the future. ~C.G.Jung Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation It makes no difference if the poet knows that his work is begotten, grows and matures with him or whether he supposes that by taking thought he produces it out of the void. The creative process has a feminine quality, and the creative work arises from unconscious depths -- we might say, from the realm of mothers. There can be no doubt that from the beginning of the nineteenth century -- from the memorable years of the French Revolution onwards -- man has given a more and more prominent place to the psyche, his increasing attentiveness to it being the measure of its growing attachment for him. The enthronement of the Goddess of Reason in Notre Dame seems to have been a symbolic gesture of great significance in the Western world -- rather like the hewing down of Woton's oak by Christian missionaries. For then, as at the revolution, no avenging bolt from heaven struck the blasphemer down. ~CGJUNG |
". . . .Then, what could love be?' I asked. 'A mortal?'
. . . . 'He's like we mentioned before,' she said. 'He is in between mortal and immortal.'
'Wotcher mean, Diotima?'
'He's a spirit, Socrates. Everything spiritual, yer see, is in between god and mortal.'
'What's their function?' I asked.
'They are messengers. . . . " ~Plato, Symposium