The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized …

Carl Jung
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The sight of a child…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. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1973). Memories, dreams, reflections, Random House Inc
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (2001). Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p.62, Psychology Press
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ✨ Beyond the Visible: Uniting Science and Religion. Book by Issa Gammoh, p. 23, February 13, 2014.
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psy … ▶
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1981). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, p.18, Princeton University Press
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

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