Carl Jung: But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
To Fanny Bowditch
Dear Miss Bowditch, 22 October 1916
It is understandable that, as long as you look at other people and project your own psychology into them, you can never reach harmony with yourself.
I am afraid that the mere fact of my presence takes you away from yourself so that it will be necessary for you to devalue you: such an extent that you can concentrate your libido on your Own individuality.
I have no objection as long as this procedure serves your best interest.
I know that this is the way of not a few people.
However I must ask you for patience.
I have to enter military service at the end of the week and I shall return only at the beginning of December.
But then I am willing to start work with you.
I realize that under the circumstances you have described you feel the need to see clearly.
But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity.
Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
DR. JUNG ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 33
From perfect discipline of the heart,
Psychology of Yoga and Meditation
Quotations from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as found in Carl Jung’s “Psychology Yoga Meditation”:
Ignorance is misperceiving permanence in transience, purity in impurity, pleasure in suffering, an essential self where there is no self. [YS 2.5, p. 45]
From perfect discipline of the heart, one has full consciousness of one’s thought. [YS 3.4, p. 67]
Knowledge of the past and future comes from perfect discipline of the three transformations of thought. [YS 3.16, p. 64]
… knowledge of the cries of all creatures comes through perfect discipline of the distinctions between them. [YS 3.17, p. 64]
… one has knowledge of former births. [YS 3.18, p. 64]
Through direct perception of the cognitive process, one has knowledge of the thoughts of others. [YS 3.19, p. 64]
From perfect discipline of the strength of an animal such as an elephant, one gains that strength. [YS 3.24, p.66]
“When each sense organ severs contact with its objects, withdrawal of the senses corresponds to the intrinsic form of thought. From this comes complete control of the senses” [YS 2.54–55, p. 59].
Ignorance is the field where the other forces of corruption develop, … [YS 2.4, p. 45]
Ignorance is misperceiving permanence in transience, purity in impurity, pleasure in suffering, an essential self where there is no self [YS 2.5, p. 45].
“Worldly experience is caused by a failure to differentiate between the lucid quality [sattva-guna] of nature [prakriti] and the spirit [purusha]. From perfect discipline of the distinction between spirit as the subject of itself and the lucid quality of nature as a dependent object, one gains knowledge of the spirit.” [YS 3.35, p. 68]
From perfect discipline of the receptive, intrinsic, egoistic, relational, and purposive functions of the sense organs, one attains mastery over them. [YS 3.47, p. 71]
From perfect discipline of moments and their sequence in time, one has the knowledge born of discrimination. [YS 3.52, p. 72]
From this one acquires quickness of mind, perception without the aid of the senses, and mastery over primordial matter. [YS 3.48, p. 71]
From perfect discipline of moments and their sequence in time, one has the knowledge born of discrimination. [YS 3.52, p. 72]
Through discrimination one comprehends differences of origin, characteristic, or position that distinguish two seemingly similar things. [YS 3.53, p. 73]
One who sees the distinction between the lucid quality of nature and the observer ceases to cultivate a personal reality. [YS 4.25, p. 80]
Then, deep in discrimination, thought gravitates toward freedom. [YS 4.26, p. 80]
This infinite knowledge means an end to the sequence of transformations in material things, their purpose now fulfilled. [YS 4.32, p. 82]
Sequence corresponds to a series of moments perceivable at the end of a process of transformation. [YS 4.33, p. 83]
Freedom is a reversal of the evolutionary course of material things, which are empty of meaning for the spirit; it is also the power of consciousness in a state of true identity. [YS 4.34, p. 83]
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