Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. 

Carl Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. 

Franz Kafka, “Letters to Milena”

Nowadays people identify themselves almost exclusively with their consciousness, and imagine that they are only what they know about themselves.

Carl Jung

And so it is—death is indeed a fearful piece of brutality; there is no sense pretending otherwise. It is brutal not only as a physical event, but far more so psychically: a human being is torn away from us, and what remains is the icy stillness of death […] From another point of view, however, death appears as a joyful event. In the light of eternity, it is a wedding, a mysterium coniunctionis. The soul attains, as it were, its missing half, it achieves wholeness.

Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

C.G. Jung, from Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Text ID: islands of memory afloat in a sea of vagueness,

On this day, June 6, 1961, C. G. Jung passed. A few days before, Jung is said to have had a dream which one might interpret to express a judgement on his life's work and the man he had become:

"He saw a huge round block of stone sitting on a high plateau and at the foot of the stone was engraved these words: 'And this shall be a sign unto you of Wholeness and Oneness.'"

This dream was described in a letter written by Ruth Bailey on June 16, 1961 to Miguel Serrano about Jung's passing. This letter can be found in Miguel Serrano's book 'C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships' (Serrano, 1966, pp. 104-105)

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“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.” ― Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. 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 impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.” ― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

C.G. Jung,  Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Archive

Everything that irritates you about others is the secret to self-awareness.

― | Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) | Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pg. 248

"At times, I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing… with which I am not linked"

~ Carl Gustav Jung, Memories Dreams Reflections p. 225

Photo: Edmund Teske (American, 1911-1996).

Face Lifting amid the Olive Trees, Hollywood, California, 1947.

Gelatin silver print.

taking a moment to reflect on how crazy it is that as a kid i wanted to be indiana jones so bad and like, never thought i'd ever get close, but now, i'm working on transitioning and i've got my career path set to archaeology and art restoration, and i've got an internship lined up at a literal roman ruin site. life is crazy

Nemuri, Hizashi and Aizawa all have a cloud tattoo somewhere on their body for Oboro. Aizawa has a small one on his wrist, because he's not much of a tattoo kinda guy usually, Hizashi has it spanning his entire bicep and Nemuri has it sprawling on the back of her neck

hc that after things were semi back to normal they did the thing where you can pull photos of memories out of the ears to eda or king so they could get a photo of titan luz <33

mainly so luz could show it to her friends and amity, but also so luz would have a reference because you know she’s going to be drawing her titan self lmao

We must always be asking ourselves: How is our unconscious experiencing this situation?

Carl Jung

Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

i kinda need to talk about my other post s8 au and basically the gist is, "What if it was all a dream was a beginning rather than an end?" Ft Allura (Former princess of advanced alien civilization with power to restore the entire multiverse) who is Just a Guy™, Shiro (Former Black Paladin of voltron, ace pilot, and survivor of the Galra Empire) who is Just a Guy™, and Lance (Just a Guy™) who is an Eldritch Horror and still Just a Guy™

Also starring- Allura's mom (may not be Melenor), and Shiro's brother (maybe Kuron) who really are just normal ass people

The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look. ‘Hypersanity’ is not a common or accepted term. But neither did I make it up. I first came across the concept while training in psychiatry, in The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise (1967) by R D Laing. In this book, the Scottish psychiatrist presented ‘madness’ as a voyage of discovery that could open out onto a free state of higher consciousness, or hypersanity. For Laing, the descent into madness could lead to a reckoning, to an awakening, to ‘break-through’ rather than ‘breakdown’. A few months later, I read C G Jung’s autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962), which provided a vivid case in point. In 1913, on the eve of the Great War, Jung broke off his close friendship with Sigmund Freud, and spent the next few years in a troubled state of mind that led him to a ‘confrontation with the unconscious’. As Europe tore itself apart, Jung gained first-hand experience of psychotic material in which he found ‘the matrix of a mythopoeic imagination which has vanished from our rational age’. Like Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Heracles, Orpheus and Aeneas before him, Jung travelled deep down into an underworld where he conversed with Salome, an attractive young woman, and with Philemon, an old man with a white beard, the wings of a kingfisher and the horns of a bull. Although Salome and Philemon were products of Jung’s unconscious, they had lives of their own and said things that he had not previously thought. In Philemon, Jung had at long last found the father-figure that both Freud and his own father had failed to be. More than that, Philemon was a guru, and prefigured what Jung himself was later to become: the wise old man of Zürich. As the war burnt out, Jung re-emerged into sanity, and considered that he had found in his madness ‘the primo materia for a lifetime’s work’.... The rest of the article, by Neil Burton, is at https://aeon.co/.../the-hypersane-are-among-us-if-only-we...

[Thanks to Ian Sanders]