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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

— Carl Jung Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)

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No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.

Paracelsus the Physician (1942)

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.

The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)

Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954)

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

The more a man's life is shaped by the collective norms, the greater is his individual immorality.

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