Red Book Out of Context @RedBookJung@schelling.pt

You must know one thing above all: a succession of words does not have only one meaning. - LS, p. 17 #CGJung 🧵 1/3

How, then, do you read this holy book? Do you really always see only one and the same meaning in it? - LS, p. 16 #CGJung

Surely you know that one can read a book many times--perhaps you almost know it by heart, and nevertheless it can be that, when you look again at the lines before you, certain things appear new or even new thoughts occur to you that you did not have before. Every word can work productively in your spirit. - LS, p. 16 #CGJung

What I believed about the soul has to become true here, namely that she knows her own way better, and that no intention can prescribe her a better one. I feel that a large chunk of science has been broken off. - LS, n. 44 #CGJung

Yes, it is the in-between world, the pathless, the manifold-dazzling. I forgot that I had reached a new world, which had been alien to me previously. I see neither way nor path. - LS, n. 44 #CGJung

I went into the inner death and saw that outer dying is better than inner death. And I decided to die outside and to live within. For that reason I turned away and sought the place of the inner life. - LS, p. 15 #CGJung

One who becomes grows aware of life, whereas one who simply exists never will, since he is in the midst of life. He needs the heights and singleness to become aware of life. But in life he becomes aware of death. And it is good that you become aware of collective death, since then you know why your singleness and your heights are good. - LS, p. 15 #CGJung

I saw how we live toward death. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

You saw that it was the life of the whole and the death of each individual. You felt yourself entwined in the collective death, from death to the earth's deepest place, from death in your own strangely breathing depths. Oh -- you long to be beyond; despair and mortal fear seize you in this death that breathes slowly and streams back and forth eternally. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

You had thought that your movement came from you and that it needed your decisions and efforts, so that you could get going and make progress. But with every conceivable effort you would never have achieved that movement and reached those areas to which the sea and the great wind of the world brought you. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

You think you are standing still like swamp water, but slowly you flow into the sea that covers the earth's greatest deeps, and is so vast that firm land seems only an island imbedded in the womb of the immeasurable sea. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

In the depths, being is not an unconditional persistence but an endlessly slow growth. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

To be that which you are is the bath of rebirth. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

He who suffers from riddles should take thought of his lowest condition; we solve those riddles from which we suffer, but not those which please us. - LS, p. 14 # CGJung

We do not love the condition of our being brought low, although or rather precisely because only there do we attain clear knowledge of ourselves. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

Your heights are your own mountain, which belongs to you and you alone. There you are individual and live your very own life. - LS, p. 14 #CGJung

At your low point you are no longer distinct from your fellow beings. - LS, p. 13 #CGJung

Be respectful and know that your best has become a horror, with that you save yourself and others from useless torment. - LS, p. 13 #CGJung