Monday, September 3, 2012

Being contemplative

From Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung:

"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.  They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking.  Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon.  Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning.  If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears."


From his auto-biography: Memories, Dreams and Reflections, page 140.

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