Neither good nor evil shall be my masters. - LS, p. 35 #CGJung
As long as you are not conscious of your self you can live; but if you become conscious of your self, you fall from one grave into another. - LS, p. 35 #CGJung
I did not live, but was driven; I was a slave to my ideals. - LS, p. 34 #CGJung
The ideal is also a tool that one can put aside anytime, a torch on dark paths. But whoever runs around with a torch by day is a fool. - LS, p. 34 #CGJung
He who believes he is really living his ideals, or believes he can live them, suffers from delusions of grandeur. - LS, p. 34 #CGJung
After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. - LS, p. 34 #CGJung
The most beautiful and the best, like the ugliest and the worst, end up someday in the most laughable place in the world, surrounded by fancy dress and led by fools, and go horror-struck to the pit of filth. - LS, p. 34 #CGJung
But I was no longer the man I had been, for a strange being grew through me. - LS, p. 34 #CGJung
What can be done? Even the devil is necessary, since otherwise one has nothing that commands a sense of respect with people. - LS, p. 33 #CGJung
A dog passes, lifts his leg over me, then trots off calmly. - LS, p. 31 #CGJung
Limitation enables you to fulfill your being. - LS, p. 31 #CGJung
I behold death, since it teaches me how to live. - LS, p. 31 #CGJung
Balance is at once life and death. - LS, p. 31 #CGJung
To live what is right and to let what is false die, that is the art of life. - LS, n. 75 #CGJung
Life and death must strike a balance in your existence. - LS, p. 31 #CGJung
We need the coldness of death to see clearly. Life wants to live and to die, to begin and to end. - LS, p. 31 #CGJung
You do not know which devils are greater, your vices, or your virtues. But of one thing you are certain, that virtues and vices are brothers. - LS, p. 31 #CGJung
But did you know what evil is, and that it stands precisely right behind your virtues, that it is also your virtues themselves, as their inevitable substance? - LS, p. 30 #CGJung
Did you ever think of the evil in you? - LS, p. 30 #CGJung
From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
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