“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”

—  C.G. Jung , book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Variant: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

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