Two things are yet to be discovered. The first is the infinite gulf that separates us from one another. The second is the bridge that could connect us. - LS, p. 74 #CGJung
No one should be astonished that men are so far removed from one another that they cannot understand one another, that they wage war and kill one another. One should be much more surprised that men believe they are close, understand one another and love one another. - LS, p. 74 #CGJung
I know your shadow and mine, that follows and comes with us, and only waits for the hour of twilight when he will strangle you and me with all the daimons of the night. - LS, p. 74 #CGJung
Your bloodthirsty tiger growls softly, your poisonous serpent hisses secretly, while you, conscious only of your goodness, offer your human hand to me in greeting. - LS, p. 74 #CGJung
He who wants to create an eternal fullness will also create eternal emptiness. - LS, p. 73 #CGJung
Once raw power comes after you, there is no help. . . . In this battle you are all alone. - LS, p. 73 #CGJung
The evil one cannot make a sacrifice, he cannot sacrifice his eye, victory is with the one who can sacrifice. - LS, p. 73 #CGJung
Nature is playful and terrible. Some see the playful side and dally with it and let it sparkle. Others see the horror and cover their heads and are more dead than alive. The way does not lead between both, but embraces both. It is both cheerful play and cold horror. - LS, p. 69 #CGJung
Just as you engender or bear your physical children, and just as they grow up and separate themselves from you to live their own fate, you also produce or give birth to beings of thought which separate themselves from you and live their own lives. - LS, p. 69 #CGJung
If the God alights from matter, we feel the emptiness of matter as one part of endless empty space. - LS, p. 68 #CGJung
Who could suspect that he who has made the God is himself condemned to Hell? - LS, p. 68 #CGJung
We probably have to accept our evil without our love and hate, recognizing that it exists and must have its share in life. In doing so, we can deprive it of the power it has to overwhelm us. - LS, p. 68 #CGJung
You are entirely unable to live without evil. - LS, p. 67 #CGJung
Ultimately, where you mistakenly imagine that you are rich, you have actually become poor. - LS, p. 67 #CGJung
Man stands between emptiness and fullness. - LS, p. 67 #CGJung
The God suffers when man does not accept his darkness. - LS, p. 67 #CGJung
All the dragons and monstrous serpents of eternal emptiness follow behind the divine son. - LS, p. 67 #CGJung
Woe betide the mother who gives birth to a God! - LS, p. 67 #CGJung
The emptiness of the depths opened beneath me. - LS, p. 66 #CGJung
All light had left me. - LS, p. 66 #CGJung
From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
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