We are the makers of our age

The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual.

This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and
the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals.

In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive
witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers.

WE MAKE OUR OWN EPOCH.

C. G. Jung

What is the Psyche?

“The Psyche is the greatest of all the cosmic wonders, and the “sine qua non”
of the world as an object. It is in the highest degree odd that Western man,
with but very few – and even fewer – exceptions, apparently pays so little regard
to this fact. 

Swamped by the knowledge of external objects, the subject of all knowledge has been temporarily eclipsed to the point of seeming nonexistence.”

- C.G. Jung

Strikingly true

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

-C.G.Jung

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Quoting Jung

Real improvement can be hoped for only if there is a radical change of consciousness.

Says C. G. Jung

Modern man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by powers beyond his control. The gods and demons have not disappeared at all, they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an invincible need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, dietary and other hygienic systems–and above all, with an impressive array of neurosis.”

Says C. G. Jung

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it Fate.

Says C. G. Jung

“That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ – all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ.

But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most imprudent of all offenders, the very enemy himself – that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my kindness – that I MYSELF AM THE ENEMY WHO MUST BE LOVED – what then…?”

C. G. Jung

If you live life without a cosmic consciousness, you have missed the whole point of your existence.

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