On Carl Jung’s 75th Birthday Stone: “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere.”
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On Carl Jung’s 75th Birthday Stone: “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere.”

On the Stone at Bollingen   “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a…

The Story of the Stone at Bollingen
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The Story of the Stone at Bollingen

The Inscriptions on the Stone at Bollingen In Bollingen, silence surrounds me almost audibly, and I live “in modest harmony with nature.” Thoughts rise to the surface which reach back into the centuries, and accordingly anticipate a remote future. Here the torment of creation is lessened; creativity and play are close together.In 1950 I made…