Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

C.g. Jung
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  1. Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. - John Lennon

  2. Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. - JeanJacques Rousseau

  3. The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. - Deepak Chopra

  4. Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. - Terence McKenna

  5. I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point. - Jim Butcher

More Quotes By C.g. Jung
  1. The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are...

  2. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

  3. 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.

  4. How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

  5. 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.

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