C.G. Jung: “There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self…”
“I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the self.
There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self. Uniform development exists, at most, at the beginning; later, everything points toward the centre.
This insight gave me stability, and gradually my inner peace returned.”
C.G. Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Do you happen to know what page number this quote is from in MDR? “ There is no linear evolution; there is only circumambulation of the self” I am trying to find it for a thesis I am writing. I love the website! Thanks! Tara
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“There is no linear evolution; there is only circumambulation of the self …. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what for me was the ultimate.”
— Jung, C.G. 1969. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. 196-199; Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press. also cited in Coward, Harold G. 1985. In Jung and Eastern Thought, 51. SUNY Press; and Bryden, Barbara E. 2005. Sundial: Theoretical Relationships Between Psychological Type, Talent, and Disease, 196, 289. CAPT.
At a lecture on labyrinths, the speaker implied that the back and forth motion helps balance the liquids in the body.