Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful sta…

Carl Jung
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Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1981). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, p.335, Princeton University Press
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