Quotes for the week

[Apotheosis]

“Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.”— Rumi

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ” RILKE

“What people don’t know surpasses the imagination, and what they don’t want to know is simply unbelievable.” ~C.Jung, The Freud/Jung Letters

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. -Thomas Moore

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino


It is wisdom to fear yourself. Only the heroes say that they are fearless. But you know what happens to the hero. – Carl Jung (Red Book)

Hell is when the depths come to you with all that you no longer are or are not yet capable of. — Carl Jung (Red Book)

Both death and life arise from the darkness of suffering. To live with this ambiguity is most difficult and most important. — Carl Jung (Red Book)

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[*Sapphire*]

Have you read the red book yet Apo?
Do you know why they did not allow it to be published until last year? Looks like an interesting read.

 

[Apotheosis]

I have ordered it. Awaiting delivery - Amazon had stock problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(Jung)

I think that Jung didn't want a certain influence that the book would have had on his patients at the time; it was a deeply personal work - then I think that it was just forgotten about.

Glad that it is here now - it is a book that is having a massive influence already.