The play instinct

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

~ Carl Jung

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Work

No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

~ Carl Jung

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Reality

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

~ Carl Jung

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