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Dare to Be: When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light. When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it. When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway... ― Steve Maraboli.

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u/Remarkable_Corgi5615 — 7 hours ago
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"Jung's soul telling him to stop making rules for himself - this line still unsettles me"

Came across this passage from The Red Book again and it hit differently this time. It's the moment his own soul confronts him mid-crisis: "Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules.

What gets me is how he frames madness not as something to suppress or "manage" but as a part of the self that needs to be recognized and given life, otherwise it comes back as fate rather than choice. Feels connected to how he later talks about the shadow - what we refuse to integrate doesn't disappear, it just runs the show from underneath.

Curious how others here read this passage. Is he talking about literal madness, or more about the parts of ourselves that reason can't account for? And do you think this ties into individuation more broadly, or is it specific to what he was going through during the Liber Novus period?

Source: The Red Book: Liber Novus, C.G. Jung

u/Remarkable_Corgi5615 — 1 day ago