A personal selection of quotes from Liber Secundus (Book Two) of Jung's Red Book:
FIND YOUR REAL LIMITS
"Your life will not take kindly to being hemmed in by artificial barriers. Life wants to jump over such barriers and you will fall out with yourself...Therefore try to find your real limits. One never knows them in advance, but one sees and understands them only when one reaches them. And that happens to you only if you have balance."
EVEN THE STONES SPEAK TO YOU
“Even the stones speak to you, and magical threads spin from you to things and from things to you.”
SECRET ENTANGLEMENT
“Nothing happens in which you are not entangled in a secret manner, for everything has ordered itself around you and plays your innermost. Nothing in you is hidden to things…The stars whisper your deepest mysteries to you, and the soft valleys of the earth rescue you in a motherly womb.”
MEANING AND CHANGE
“You find manifold meaning only in yourself, not in things, since the manifoldness of meaning is not something that is given at the same time, but is a succession of meanings."
"Things also change, but you do not notice this if you do not change.”
I WANT TO LIVE LIKE THE SUN
“I want to live from my own force like the sun which gives light and does not suck light.”
ALL YOUR REBIRTHS COULD MAKE YOU SICK
“As long as you are not conscious of your self you can live, but when you become conscious of your self you fall from one grave into another. All your rebirths could ultimately make you sick. The Buddha therefore finally gave up on rebirth, for he had had enough of crawling through all human and animal forms.”
THE POWER OF NAMING
“One often gives the sick new names to heal them, for with these names, they come by new essence. Your name is your essence.”
TAKE THE GOD WITH YOU
“If you are clever, take the God with you, then you know where he is.”
YOU CAN LEAVE CHRISTIANITY BUT IT DOES NOT LEAVE YOU
“It is better to be thrown into visible chains than invisible ones. You can certainly leave Christianity but it does not leave you. Your liberation from it is delusion. Christ is the way.”
THE IMITATION OF CHRIST
“If I thus truly imitate Christ, I do not imitate anyone.”
SIMPLICITY
"When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life."
Source: C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus edited by Sonu Shamdasani (New York: Norton, 2009).
I love the first quote (though all are brillant) about artificial barriers and finding your real limits. Playing your card oracle game at the Sharonville convention center in Cincinnati a few years ago I got a card that read, "He will no longer hold you back." It was mysterious to me for quite awhile and I didn't think it applied to my question, until I realized much later that it was my own personal gatekeeper. Since then I've been learning to work consciously with my gatekeeper to expand my own boundaries and explore the possible.
ReplyDeleteJustin - I like the message of that card and (especially) how you read it and chose to work with it. We do need gatekeepers, inner and outer. Part of their function is to make sure we are fully prepared to enter territories beyond the maps where dragons may be found. It's a very good idea to "work consciously" with our gatekeepers to establish our readiness to open new doors.
ReplyDeleteThere is only one way.
ReplyDeleteLe-havdil,
Ribi Yehoshua ha-Mashiakh (the Messiah) from Nazareth’s authentic teachings reads:
[Torah, Oral Law & Hebrew Matityahu: Ribi Yehoshua Commanded Non-Selective Observance
The Netzarim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu (NHM) 5:17-20]
[Glossaries found in the website below.]:
"I didn't come to subtract from the Torâh of Moshëh or the Neviim, nor to add onto the Torah of Moshëh did I come. Because, rather, I came to [bring about the] complete [i.e., non-selective] observance of them in truth.
Should the heavens and ha-Aretz exchange places, still, not even one י or one of the Halâkhâh of the Torah of Moshehshall so much as exchange places; toward the time when it becomes that they are all being performed -- i.e., non- selectively -- in full.
For whoever deletes one [point of] the Halâkhâh of these mitzwot from Torah, or shall teach others such, [by those in] the Realm of the heavens he shall be called 'deleted.' And whoever ratifies and teaches them shall be called ' Ribi' in the Realm of the heavens.
For I tell you that unless your tzәdâqâh is over and above that of the [Hellenist-Roman Pseudo- Tzedoqim] Codifiers of halakhah, and of the Rabbinic- Perushim sect of Judaism, no way will you enter into the Realm of the heavens." (see NHM)
Quote from www.netzarim.co.il ; “History Museum”
The reconstruction is made using a scientific and logic methodology. One of the premises is that the historical Ribi Yehoshua was a Torah-observant Pharisee (why that premise is true is found in the above website, in which you also will find more information about why a reconstruction is needed).
The historical Ribi Yehoshua and his followers Netzarim observed Torah non-selectively. The above website proofs that the person who want to follow the historical Ribi Yehoshua must do likewise.
Torah-observance is the way according to Ribi Yehoshua.
Anders Branderud