The Wisdom Letter #169
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The Wisdom Letter #169
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s” - Carl Jung
How can we hope to analyse, with any degree of certitude, our souls, especially when, under the influence of feeling, we see as through a glass darkly."
George Sylvester Viereck • The House of the Vampire
Dear Herr N.,Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words. But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place.When one is in a mess like you are, one has no right any more to worry about the idiocy of one’s own psychology, but must do the next thing with diligence and devotion and earn the g... See more
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Dr. Matthew B. James • Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. And where we make contact with this old man in us? In our dreams. —C. G. Jung