The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word β€œhappy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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