Today has meaning only if it stands between yesterday and tomorrow.
the Portable Jungby c. G. Jung
Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further we are able to remove ourselves from the unconscious through directed functioning, the more readily a powerful counterposition can build up in the unconscious, and when this breaks out it may have disagreeable consequences.
Only the man who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past, and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed for him by his world, can achieve full consciousness of the present. To do this he must be sound and proficient in the best sense – a man who as achieved as much as other people, and even a little more. It is these qualities which enable him to gain the next highest level of consciousness.
consciousness / past / present / World
We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the “sine qua non” of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.
chaos / lost / personality / spirit
The golden apples drop from the same tree, whether they be gathered by an imbecile locksmith’s apprentice or by a Schopenhauer.
Causality is the way we explain the link between two successive events. Synchronicity designates the parallelism of time and meaning between psychic and psychophysical events, which scientific knowledge so far has been unable to reduce to a common principle.
causality / knowledge / psychic / psychophysical / Synchronicity
We want to have certainties and no doubts – results and no experiments – without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.