Carl Gustav Jung

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on May 1, 2021 at 8:57pm

Jung with children and grandchildren

When you neglect your own welfare in seeking the welfare of the children, you leave the children a bad inheritance, a very bad impression of the past. If you torture yourself in order to produce something for the children, you give them the picture of a tortured life. Therefore away with all that.

If you are always preparing for the happiness of the children, you don't know how to look after your own happiness, nor do the children learn how to look after theirs. They in turn may go on to prepare for the happiness of your grandchildren, and the grandchildren for the great-grandchildren, and so happiness is always somewhere in the future.

You think happiness is something to be attained in the future, that you cannot attain it, but your children will have it. So you fill your life with ambitions for that kingdom to come and it never does. Every generation is doing something towards it. They all torture themselves in order that the children shall attain it, but the children grow up and are the same fools we are.

Try to make it here and now, for yourself. That is good teaching. Then the children will try to make it here and now for themselves - then it can come into the real world. Don't be unnatural and seek happiness in the next generations. If you are too concerned about your children and grandchildren, you simply burden them with the debts you have contracted. While if you contract no debts, if you live simply and make yourselves as happy as possible, you leave the best of conditions to your children. At all events, you leave a good example of how to take care of themselves. If the parents can take care of themselves, the children will also. They will not be looking for the happiness of the grandchildren, but will do what is necessary to have a reasonable amount of happiness themselves.

C. G. Jung - Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on May 1, 2021 at 5:03am

WOW!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on May 1, 2021 at 4:54am

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error... Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim."

― Gustave Le Bon

Comment by Luna Arjuna on April 28, 2021 at 10:41pm

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness."

~ Hunter Thompson

Book: The Proud Highway

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on March 27, 2021 at 1:45am

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on March 27, 2021 at 1:45am

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on March 25, 2021 at 2:31am

"Never forget that you are a man and therefore you must bleed for the goal of humanity. Listen you are still too juvenile for your age. You should get older, the years are dwindling and yet your work has not been accomplished.

Practice solitude assiduously without grumbling so that everything will in time become ready. You should not die unfulfilled. Your years are numbered and many years are still needed for your fulfilment. You should become serious and your work sink heavy as iron into the ground of mankind.

Let go of too much science. There lies the way that is not the way. Your way goes toward the depths, toward the rarest and deepest."

C. G. Jung - Black Books.

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on March 12, 2021 at 1:05am

Yes, indeed, they have developed the Yoga for Health of the body, which might serve that purpose, but which it is not Yoga, at all, even though there is a branch of Yoga, the Hatta Yoga, that deals with the body healing part.

But of course, at least, it is adapted to the Western culture. 

Comment by Luna Arjuna on March 11, 2021 at 11:09pm

He isn't against it but against direct transplantation of ideas grown from a different mental soil and so rendering opposite results for people of western cultures.
Eg, you can see plenty of inflated, misguided "yogis" out of touch with any reality on social media for example.

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