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Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.
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Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.
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00:00There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.
00:06Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
00:14I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
00:22They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking.
00:31Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon.
00:36Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning.
00:40If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis.
00:45An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
00:51One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling.
00:58The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
01:06It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
01:19We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect, we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
01:26Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
01:36Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life.
01:41Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto.
01:48But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.
01:59Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
02:04To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
02:13I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself.
02:16I am distressed, depressed, rapturous.
02:21I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.
02:25I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness, I have no judgment about myself and my life.
02:32There is nothing I am quite sure about.
02:35I have no definite convictions, not about anything, really.
02:39I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along.
02:44I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.
02:48What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me, and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved, what then?
03:01A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
03:06As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
03:12Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
03:18With a truly tragic delusion, Carl Jung noted, these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see.
03:30It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it.
03:36It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.
03:39Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
03:45The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
03:53As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is, man, in a higher sense, he is, collective man, one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.
04:06It is my mind with its store of images that gives the world color and sound and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can experience is in its most simple form an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images.
04:19Thus there is in a certain sense nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself.
04:25Everything is mediated through the mind translated filtered allegorized twisted even falsified by it.
04:31We are enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.
04:36Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do.
04:43But there are times when the clown we call I behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.
04:50The sight of a child that will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons, longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.
05:04Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.
05:09Its true life is invisible hidden in the rhizome the part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer then it withers away in ephemeral apparition when we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux what we see is the blossom which passes the rhizome remain.
05:31I have treated many hundreds of patients.
05:34Among those in the second half of life, that is to say, over 35, there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
05:45It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
05:57As a child I felt myself to be alone and I am still because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of and for the most part do not want to know.
06:07Loneliness 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.
06:18There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche.
06:32It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols, wisdom is a return to them.