Carl Gustav Jung

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on Saturday

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

C. G. Jung

Art: "Maria"- Carl Strathmann

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.

(on being 36 yrs old)
Carl Gustav Jung, Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5)

"Younger people, who have not yet reached the middle of life (around the age of 35), can bear even the total loss of the anima without injury. The important thing at this stage is for a man to be a man. The growing youth must be able to free himself from the anima fascination of his mother." (p. 71)

"After the middle of life, however, permanent loss of the anima means a diminution of vitality, of flexibility, and of human kindness. The result, as a rule, is premature rigidity, crustiness, stereotypy, fanatical one-sidedness, obstinacy, pedantry, or else resignation, weariness, sloppiness, irresponsibility, and finally a childish ramollissement with a tendency to alcohol." (p. 71)

The distance from the heart to the head is sometimes 30 years, sometimes a whole lifetime :
"We say, “You know it in the head, but you don’t know it in the heart.” There is an extraordinary distance from the head to the heart, a distance of ten, twenty, thirty years, or a whole lifetime."

C.G. Jung, Seminars on Kundalini Yoga

Comment by Eva Libre on June 3, 2025 at 6:11pm

“I would rather be whole than good.”

C.G Jung
Art: William Blake

Comment by Nada Jung on April 22, 2025 at 12:37pm

Life isn’t handed to us like an opera libretto: It is an adventure into which we must throw ourselves. Failures cannot hold us back if we have fire in our hearts. We must allow ourselves to encounter life and God.

Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

The rose he is holding is named "Pope John Paul II".

Comment by Eva Libre on January 25, 2025 at 12:59am

"The figure of the wise old man can appear so plastically, not only in dreams but also in visionary meditation (or what we call “active imagination”), that, as is sometimes apparently the case in India, it takes over the role of a guru. The wise old man appears in dreams in the guise of a magician, doctor, priest, teacher, professor, grandfather, or any other person possessing authority.

The archetype of spirit in the shape of a man, hobgoblin, or animal always appears in a situation where insight, understanding, good advice, determination, planning, etc., are needed but cannot be mustered on one’s own resources. The archetype compensates this state of spiritual deficiency by contents designed to fill the gap."
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious Paragraph 388

Comment by Eva Libre on January 24, 2025 at 4:07pm

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on January 19, 2025 at 3:31am

So true, unless we awaken to that reality and change our course, which I believe it is happening, even as I write this!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on January 17, 2025 at 2:52pm

"Civilized man...is in danger of losing all contact with the world of instinct -- a danger that is still further increased by his living an urban existence in what seems to be a purely man-made environment. This loss of instinct is largely responsible for the pathological condition of contemporary culture."

~ C.G. Jung

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 6, 2024 at 3:58pm

“My language is German. My culture, my attainments are German. I considered myself German intellectually, until I noticed the growth of anti-Semitic prejudice in Germany and German-Austria. Since that time, I consider myself no longer a German. I prefer to call myself a Jew.”

~ Sigmund Freud
Interview, (1926)

Comment by Luna Arjuna on November 17, 2024 at 5:52pm

Sigmund Freud with his sons Ernst and Martin who served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in WWI. (c. 1914).

Comment by Luna Arjuna on September 5, 2024 at 7:48pm

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.

C.G. Jung

Photo: Hulton Archive

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