“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”

—  C.G. Jung

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Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

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