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Carl G. Jung ON FATE..and what in the world would be the motive for the Incarnation if man's fate didn't affect God? Also, no one has ever heard of a bridge that leads only to the other bank of the river The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him... it is sometimes so heavy a burden that he is fated to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. It is a fundamental error to try to subject our own fate at call costs to our will. Our will is a function regulated by reflection; hence it is dependent on the quality of that reflection. The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with high ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being - that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal. The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. C.G. Jung, On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry 'My fate' means a daemonic will to precisely that fate - a will not necessarily coincident with my own (the ego will). When it is opposed to the ego, it is difficult not to feel a certain 'power' in it, whether divine or infernal. The man who submits to his fate calls it the will of God, the man who puts up a hopeless and exhausting fight is more apt to see the devil in it. Related fate quotes: | C.G.Jung: Fate and the Unconscious | Jung on Coincidences | Other fate quotes: Fate and Destiny |
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