Words of Wisdom from Carl Jung
To be fully aware and embracing of all that is within us and consciously seeking to be all that we can be is our most noble quest.
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To be fully aware and embracing of all that is within us and consciously seeking to be all that we can be is our most noble quest.
The giant crack in Earth that is the Grand Canyon has been here a long time — a very long time, in fact, before we humans came along. And it’s likely to go on for a long time, even if we do not.
In the end, all of our quests for ultimate understanding necessarily relegate us to metaphor. And over the years I’ve been exposed to many different explanatory metaphors.
We are organisms co-existing with our environment, making no sense without it, needing to be aware of what we are actually doing, rather than what we think we are doing — let alone what we think about what we are thinking we are doing.
In this second of the series on sense of self and how it differs across cultures, I am going to look at the interconnected or relational self, and how awareness of how interdependent we are might lead to fear of others.
Our conceptualizations of the situations we find ourselves in can not only place us at a disadvantage, but can literally do us harm.
I have never in my life felt so relieved and so inspired by the results of an election as I am by the selection of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States. Today, the world is a better place.
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