"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
-Carl Jung
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.“
-Carl Jung
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes."
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"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
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"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
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"Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
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