In this episode:
We talk about happiness, and discover why Jung believed it was better for us not to pursue it.
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Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.
Sources for quotes and more:
- Except where otherwise noted, all quotes from Jung are taken from The Art of Living in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
- 'Tao Te Ching,' Translated by Red Pine.
- 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L’Engle.
- 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf.
- “The challenge I face is how to actualize the quiet eminence of our being.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, 'I Asked For Wonder.'
- Letter to Harriet Hardy from C.G. Jung ("Carl Jung on Happiness")
- “...a civilization that has forgotten that man’s life should be sacrificial, that is, offered up to an idea greater than himself.” ~ C.G. Jung, in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
- “Again and again I therefore admonish my students both in Europe and in America: ‘Don't aim at success..." ~ Viktor Frankl in 'Man's Search For Meaning.'
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