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C.G. Jung: “He whose desire turns away from outer things reaches the place of the soul.”

    “He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things in…

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C.G. Jung: “To find their soul, the ancients went into the desert.”

  Washington Allston,  Elijah in the Desert  Everything to come was already in images: to find their soul, the ancients went into the desert. This is an image. The ancients lived their symbols, since the world had not yet become real for them. Thus they went into the solitude of the desert to teach us that…