✹ For today's Wisdom Letter, we have carefully curated five bite-sized quotes from the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Carl Jung (1875–1961).
Quote № 01:
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
— Carl Jung, “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”
Quote № 02:
“The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.”
— Carl Jung, “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”
Quote № 03:
“For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
— Carl Jung, “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”
Quote № 04:
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
— Carl Jung, “The Psychology of the Unconscious”
Quote № 05:
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”
— Carl Jung, “Psychological Types”
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✺ Today’s Questions
Three philosophical questions to foster your curiosity:
Question № 01:
Can the contemplation of death deepen our capacity for love, or does it lead to detachment and avoidance?
Question № 02:
How much of our personality is predetermined by genetics, and how much is influenced by environmental factors?
Question № 03:
Can we ever truly access or understand the depths of our unconscious, or are we limited to glimpses and interpretations?
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A1: I mostly think about death, not contemplate it because even thinking about death makes me feel depressed and trapped inside a well that i can't get out.
A2: I can say that my personality is a combination of nature and nurture (genetically speaking, my core traits are like my parents, but my non-core traits are the result of the environmental factors).
A3: I believe we humans, during our lifetime can't reach the deepest ends of our unconscious.
1. It depends on the mindset with which death is contemplated. A person who is not afraid to take that long internal journey under the guidance of love for everything that exists understands that death is as natural as birth; why life really is the place of gradual birth of the genuine human soul as humans come to earth with a potential to be part of the all, and that the only thing that one takes with themselves in death is love that leads to peace.
2. A human being is ideally a balanced combination of genetics and environmental factors. However, life on earth does not proceed in conformity with the laws of nature, hence the balance is destroyed and domination of genetics or the environment become a possibility. The fate of each person, however, is to eventually rise above both factors. The existence of human beings is the way in which God did play dice.
3. Access to the depths of the unconscious is in fact partly a practical matter concerning the elimination of viruses that organised religions refer to as deadly sins. Historically, only those who wanted to slow down the human ability to eliminate the fragmentation of her mind envisaged so-called limitations to the extent to which the unconscious can be accessed.