a jungian convert

it's been a year since i've been putting much thoughts on a human being's antagonist side. Some have read my writings on the antagonist persona that exist unconsciously in our mind and efforts that we should make to recognise and diminish their influence.

I was shocked in awe, when i found that this theory is validated by a well-recognised philosopher from the 18th century.(damn, why did i apply to cbs instead of psycology school. i might make a gud mental doctor)

His work and reputation are being compared to ones by the father of pyschology, Sigmund freud. How come i've never heard of his name before, until last week that is. Well, this guy name is carl jung. Ended up spending hours to study his theories and philosophies of life. I just fall in love with his philosophies. Now that i convert from a freudian to a jungian, i shall apply more and more teachings of his other than freud's pieces.

Superstition and accident manifest the will of God.

• A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

• An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

• The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one’s whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

• The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

• The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

• We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

• Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. (Called or uncalled, God is present.)