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Instincts, however, are highly conservative and of extreme antiquity

Instincts, however, are highly conservative and of extreme antiquity Undiscovered Self Since the normal fantasies of a child are nothing other, at bottom, than the imagination born of the instinctive impulses, and may thus be regarded as preliminary exercises in the use of future conscious activities, it follows that the fantasies of the neurotic, even though pathologically altered and… 

body and soul

Carl Jung: Who knows the way to the eternally fruitful climes of the soul?

Carl Jung: Who knows the way to the eternally fruitful climes of the soul? Yet who today knows this? Who knows the way to the eternally fruitful climes of the soul? You seek the way through mere appearances, you study books and give ear to all kinds of opinion. What good is all that? There… 

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It seems a positive menace to the ego that its monarchy can be doubted.

It seems a positive menace to the ego that its monarchy can be doubted. The forlornness of consciousness in our world is due primarily to the loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more… 

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Carl Jung: Nature wants me to be simply man.

Carl Jung: Nature wants me to be simply man. C.G. Jung Speaking What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfill the divine will within me. This task gives me so much to do that I have no time or any other. Let me point…