Meditation for September 22nd, 2016
Carl Jung
Dr. Carl Jung was a psycho who lived in Europe telling people what their dreams meant. He believed that symbols are a subconscious language that all humans speak. He also murdered Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Carl Jung had a lot to say. Here are his highlights:
“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…”
That means you are just a waste and wasting everyone’s time by existing. Don’t get mad, a doctor is saying this not me.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Who you truly are that takes a lifetime is dead.
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
So stop believing you can solve anything. Basically all things are solved with your death.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
You aren’t born, you are just going to die, so choose whatever you want because you have to do something before you die.
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
You are not a tree, neither is there a heaven or hell, so you will be nothing after you die.
“For better to come, good must stand aside.”
Being good isn’t necessary to do the right thing. No one will remember anyway after you die.
“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”
That means all things you need to achieve to feel fulfilled as a human being are made up reactions. Then you die.
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
You probably tried to live like someone else, and you always felt like you were being pinched before you finally keel over and die.
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
You probably won’t kindle any light before you die, but give it a try.
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
You got all these habits and awful personality traits growing up, and then you grow old trying to forget and undo all the bullshit you picked up as a young person and then you died.
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
If there is no pain then you are dead.
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
The only way you know that you are awful is to notice that other people are awful and then you finally go to sleep and never wake up.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
Drink, drugs, sex, prostitutes, gambling, shopping, suicide, Facebook…
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
All those things you didn’t say or kept from loved ones before they died.
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
Could you imagine being complete? It won’t happen before you die.
“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
Don’t say or do anything anymore. Act like you’re dead already.
“With a truly tragic delusion, theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.”
You won’t see shit after you die.
“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”