Fortune Quote #2901

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who
has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source
of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendour to the
world and to mankind. He has _pistis_ and peace. Where is the criterion by
which you could say that such a life is not legitimate, that such an
experience is not valid, and that such _pistis_ is mere illusion?
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2900

I am not, however, addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith, but
to those many people for hwom the light has gone out, the mystery has
faded, and God is dead. For most of them there is no going back, and one
does not know either whether going back is always the better way.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2899

In the gospels themselves factual reports, legends, and myths are woven
into a whole. This is precisely what constitutes the meaning of the
gospels, and they would immediately lose their character of wholeness if
one tried to separate the individual from the archetypal with a critical
scalpel. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2898

Not only is "freedom of the will" an incalculable problem philosophically,
it is also a misnomer in the practical sense, for we seldom find anybody
who is not influenced and indeed dominated by desires, habits, impulses,
prejudices, resentments, and by every conceivable kind of complex.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2897

How can anyone see straight when he does not even see himself and the
darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2896

The philosophy of the Upanishads corresponds to a psychology that long ago
recognized the relativity of the gods. This is not to be confused with a
stupid error like atheism. The world is as it ever has been, but our
consciousness undergoes peculiar changes. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2895

The _genius religiosus_ is a wind that bloweth where it listeth. There is
no Archimedean point from which to judge, since the psyche is
indistinguishable from its manifestations. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2894

In lunatic asylums it is a well-known fact that patients are far more
dangerous when suffering from fear than when moved by rage or
hatred. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2893

What is ordinarily called "religion" is a substitute to such an amazing
degree that I ask myself seriously whether this kind of "religion," which I
prefer to call a creed, may not after all have an important function in
human society. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2892

One might, perhaps, consider this case an exception inasmuch as fairly
complete human beings are exceptions. -- Carl Gustav Jung