Peace and blue night spread over you while you dream in the grave of the millennia. - LS, p. 22 #CGJung
Silence and peace come over you if you begin to comprehend the darkness. - LS, p. 22 #CGJung
Only he who does not comprehend the darkness fears the night. - LS, p. 22 #CGJung
Honor the darkness as the light, and you will illumine your darkness. - LS, p. 22 #CGJung
The darkness is your mother. - LS, p. 22 #CGJung
The God of words is cold and dead and shines from afar like the moon, mysteriously and inaccessibly. - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
What use is the light if the darkness does not comprehend it? - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
He who breaks the wall of words overthrows Gods and defiles temples. - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
The word becomes your God, since it protects you from the countless possibilities of interpretation. The word is protective magic against the daimons of the unending, which tear at your soul and want to scatter you to the winds. - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
And yet you must go an endless road, since life flows not only down a finite path but also an infinite one. - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
The writing lies before you and always says the same, if you believe in words. But if you believe in things in whose places only words stand, you never come to the end. - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
What are years? What is hurrying time to him that sits under a tree? Your time passes like a breath of air and you wait for the next light, the next fruit. - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
You also see yourself in the totality. - LS, p. 21 #CGJung
And when you sleep, you rest, like everything that was, and your dreams echo softly again from distant temple chants. - LS, pp. 20-21 #CGJung
Brimful delicious expectation is in the solitary. - LS, p. 19 #CGJung
Have you ever unlearned anything? -- Well, then you should know how long it takes. - LS, p. 18 #CGJung
I've spent many years alone with the process of unlearning. - LS, p. 18 #CGJung
Guard against being a slave to words. - LS, p. 17 #CGJung
Words should not become Gods. - LS, p. 17 #CGJung
From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
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