People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

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"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

- Carl Gustav Jung

Love

"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

- Carl Gustav Jung

Awareness

"Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us."

- Carl Gustav Jung

Awareness

"It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images."

- Carl Gustav Jung

Awareness

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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."

- Carl Gustav Jung

Balance

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"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

Self-awareness