Loving reaches up to heaven and resisting reaches just as high. They are entwined and will not let go of each other, since the excessive tension seems to indicate the ultimate and highest possibility of feeling. - LS, p. 157 #CGJung
My heart is filled with wild battle. - LS, p. 156 #CGJung
It is all yes and no. The opposites embrace each other, see eye to eye, and intermingle. They recognize their oneness in agonizing pleasure. - LS, p. 156 #CGJung
How holy, how sinful, how everything hot and cold flows into one another! Madness and reason want to be married, the lamb and the wolf graze peacefully side by side. - LS, p. 156 #CGJung
My sister, my soul, what do you say? - LS, p. 155 #CGJung
The sun rises without our help. - LS, p. 153 #CGJung
He who loves the people remains silent. - LS, p. 153 #CGJung
You are a vessel of fables. - LS, p. 151 #CGJung
I look into the vast land and hear nothing but wailing and see nothing but men consuming each other. - LS, p. 148 #CGJung
There are those who love men, and those who love the souls of men, and those who love their own soul. - LS, p. 147 #CGJung
Stupidity is one of man's strange hobbyhorses. There is something divine about it, and yet something of the megalomania of the world. Which is why stupidity is really large. - LS, p. 146, n. 277 #CGJung
We teach the way to earth. - LS, p. 146, n. 276 #CGJung
Our hands have been tied, and each must sit quietly in his place. - LS, p. 146 #CGJung
While the sea is a death, it is also a place of rising. - LS, p. 146 #CGJung
That which we can no longer prevent or hide is our fruit. - LS, p. 145 #CGJung
I must unite the two conflicting powers of my soul and keep them together in a true marriage until the end of my life. - LS, p. 145 #CGJung
If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. - LS, p. 144 #CGJung
Magic is a way of living. - LS, p. 144 #CGJung
One can only remain silent about this, which seems to be the best apprenticeship. - LS, p. 144 #CGJung
One can teach the way that leads to chaos, but one cannot teach magic. - LS, p. 144 #CGJung
From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
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