We are prejudiced in regard to the animal
We are prejudiced in regard to the animal.
People don’t understand when I tell them they should become acquainted with their animals or assimilate their animals.
They think the animal is always jumping over walls and raising hell all over town.
Yet in nature the animal is a well-behaved citizen.
It is pious, it follows the path with great regularity, it does nothing extravagant.
Only man is extravagant.
So if you assimilate the character of the animal you become a peculiarly law-abiding citizen, you go very slowly; and you become very reasonable in your ways, in as much as you can afford it” ~Carl Jung, Visions I, p. 168.
Carl Jung on Animals – Anthology
The Animals. We appreciate them much more. We think of the psychology of animals.
In the 19th century they made laws for their protection, and began to treat them more decently, but it is only in recent years that we begin to think of a few animals as our brothers. ~Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Page 21.
There is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 359.
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. ~Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams and Reflections; Chapter 8.
Because they are so closely akin to us and share our unknowingness, I loved all warm-blooded animals who have souls like ourselves and with whom, so I thought, we have an instinctive understanding. ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Page 67.
This is old age, and a limitation. Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, an1mals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself. ~Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams and Reflections; Page 359.
Even domestic an1mals, to whom we erroneously deny a conscience, have complexes and moral reactions. ~Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition, Page 446.
Emotional manifestations are based on similar patterns, and are recognizably the same all over the earth. We understand them even in animals, and the an1mals themselves understand each other in this respect, even if they belong to different species. ~Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation, Page 234.
The most pronounced intuitives have what the Scotch call second sight, they can, for instance, foretell the weather, many an1mals also have this last power. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Page 100.
Often when people behave in an exceedingly unexpected manner the appearance of an archetype is the explanation ; archetypes go back not only through human history, but to our ancestors the an1mals, that is why we are able to understand an1mals so well and make friends with them. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Vol. 2, Page 177.
Primitives are re ally human animals living on the lap of the earth and from its sap. We are merely enlightened! ~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Vol. 2, Page 200.
In these days, on the other hand, we are becoming very sentimental about an1mals, every kind of society for the prevention of cruelty to animals exists, which shows that we are getting more friendly towards our instincts. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Vol. 2, Page 220.
One of the aims of some kinds of Yoga is to understand the voice of all an1mals, but we are not convinced in the West that horses and dogs have such important thoughts. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Vol. 2, Page 17.
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