Thread by @jungianLaura

"Over time, Jung concluded that there was within each of us a deep resilience guided by some locus of knowing, independent of #ego consciousness; a center that produces our dreams to correct us, symptoms to challenge us, and visions to inspire us." ~James Hollis, Jungian analyst

"[Jung's] was not an amateur's trust in impulse or a captivation by psychological complex; it was a long, patient, humbling attendance upon the psyche, or #soul, and its perspicacious permutations." ~James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Living Between Worlds, p. 17

"All of Jung's intense exploration occurred in the context of cultural ferment & dislocation. While he was most intensely engaged in an investigation of the inner terrain of the human #soul, most of Europe was engaged in a vast bloodletting, the consequences of which we are…

"…still suffering a century later. One of those consequences was a still more destructive #war that followed. In a 1939 speech in London, Jung noted how, absent a sense of connection to something numinous, we even create disturbances." ~James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"[People] are simply sick of the whole thing, sick of that banal life, and therefore they want sensation. … They are all glad when there is a #war: they say, 'Thank heaven, now something is going to happen—something bigger than ourselves.'" ~C.G. Jung, CW 18, par. 627

"Jung's last sentence—'something bigger than ourselves'—reveals our hunger for more than the #ego-bound world. Beneath it all, Jung goes on to say in his speech, is 'a terrific fear of loneliness.'" ~James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Living Between Worlds, p. 18