C.G. Jung: “There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.”

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“The stirring up of conflict is a Luciferian virtue in the true sense of the word.

Conflict engenders fire, the fire of affects and emotions, and like every other fire it has two aspects, that of combustion and that of creating light.
On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes.

But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness.

There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.”


Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious

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  1. I wish I could know how to utilise my darkness in transforming myself and people around me living in darkness.

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