I do enjoy Carl Jung's poetic turn of phrase.
Carl Jung understood this dilemma well when he wrote that “this new form of existence,” speaking of the modern mass society, “produced an individual who was unstable, insecure, and suggestible.”
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
He discusses in detail the opinion that ‘souls . . . “know” only what they knew at the moment of death’.
Stephani L. Stephens • C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain
Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present. Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes descri
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