Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal…

Carl Jung
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Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life
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