“I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself.”

— C.G. Jung

Combining alchemical assertions
Bollingen Tower inscriptions (1950)
Context: I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.

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Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

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