“We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall. If there is no pedestal on which you have put […]
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On the Borderland.
Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who […]
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” Carl Jung .
The following is a letter which Dr. Carl Jung wrote…
…to a friend who had suffered the loss of a young child: Dear Adam, I am sorry you are so miserable. “Depression” means literally “being forced downward.” This can happen even when you don’t consciously have any feeling at all of being “on top.” So I wouldn’t dismiss this hypothesis out of hand … I […]
