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"The archetypal world is 'eternal', i.e., outside time, and it is everywhere." |
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"What we need is the development of the inner spiritual man, the unique individual whose treasure is hidden on the one hand in the symbols of our mythological tradition, and on the other hand in man's unconscious psyche." |
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"Man (Anthropos) is the visible manifestation of the original One, i.e., God." |
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"Mandalas are also formed with the hands, danced, and represented in music (for instance Bach's 'Art of Fugue')….When a mandala is being formed, everything round and square known to man works on it too. But the impetus for its formation comes from the unconscious archetype." |
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"The secret passion which keeps spiritual techniques alive through the centuries is connected with an original experience of wholeness." |
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"The way to the cognition of God begins with the cognition of oneself." |
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"Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's 'primal thoughts.'" |
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"The archetypes have a life of their own which extends through the centuries and gives the aeons their peculiar stamp." |
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"The self is a unit, consisting however of two, i.e., of opposites, otherwise it would not be a totality." |
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"I do KNOW of a power of a very personal nature and an irresistible influence. I call it 'God.' I use this term because it has been used for this kind of experience since time immemorial. From this point of view any gods, Zeus, Wotan, Allah, Yahweh, the Summum Bonum, etc., have their intrinsic truth. They are different and more or less differentiated expressions or aspects of one ineffable truth." |
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"There is no energy without opposites." |
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"The 'imago Dei' [God-image], is the archetype of the self in us." |
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"Man and his soul, the individual, doesn't just work, eat, sleep, reproduce, and die but also has a meaningful destiny reaching far beyond him." |
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"Becoming conscious reconciles the opposites." |
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"Many paths lead to the central experience. But the nearer one gets to the centre the easier it is to understand the other paths that lead there." |
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"The psychological 'merit' (or rather, significance) of Christ consists in the fact that, as the 'firstling', he is the prototype of the integral man. This image, as history testifies, is numinous and can therefore be answered only by another numinosity. It touches the imago Dei, the archetype of the self in us, and thereby awakens it. The self is then 'constellated' and by virtue of its numinosity compels man toward wholeness, i.e., towards the integration of the unconscious or the subordination of the ego to a holistic 'will', which is rightly conceived to be 'God's will." |
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"The centre is the indivisible monad of the self, the unity and wholeness of the experiencing subject." |
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"The depth of the psyche, the unconscious, is not made by man but is divinely created nature." |
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"If turmoil and torment become too great, there is still the oneness of the self, the divine spark within its inviolable precincts." |
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"I find that all my thoughts circle round God like the planets round the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by him. I would feel it the most heinous sin were I to offer any resistance to this compelling force." |
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"'Psyche' and 'matter' are not basically incommensurable, but may perhaps be qualities of one and the same existential being." |
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"If you learn about yourself and if eventually you discover more or less who you are, you also learn about God, and who He is." |
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"The paths leading to a common truth are many. Therefore each of us has first to stand by his own truth, which is then gradually reduced to a common truth by mutual discussion. All this requires psychological understanding and empathy with the other's point of view. A common task for every group in quest of a common truth." |
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"There is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of matter. The world beyond is a reality, an experiential fact." |
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"The Oneness of the Holy Spirit…is the pneumatic state the creator attains to through the phase of incarnation." |