“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer. That is a supra-personal life task, which I accomplish only by effort and … Continue reading Life & Death series, post 1: Life
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As Deep As the Ocean – Pieces of ME
“Knowledge of processes in the background early shaped my relationship to the world. Basically, that relationship was the same in my childhood as it is to this day. 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 known nothing … Continue reading As Deep As the Ocean – Pieces of ME
Dream Entry: The Question of Immortality
“In the majority of cases the question of immortality is so urgent, so immediate, and also so ineradicable that we must make an effort to form some sort of view about it. But how? My hypothesis is that we can do so with the aid of things sent to us from the unconscious – in … Continue reading Dream Entry: The Question of Immortality
Dream Entry: Art of Dreams
“To me dreams are a part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive, but expresses something as best it can, just as a plant grows or an animal seeks its food as best it can. These forms of life, too, have no wish to deceive our eyes, but we may deceive ourselves because our … Continue reading Dream Entry: Art of Dreams
Dream Entry: Freedom of Opposites
“Wherever the psyche is set violently oscillation by a numinous experience, there is a danger that the thread by which one hands may be torn. Should that happen, one man tumbles into an absolute affirmation, another into an equally absolute negation. Nirdvandva (freedom of opposites) is the Orient’s remedy for this. The pendulum of the mind oscillates … Continue reading Dream Entry: Freedom of Opposites
