“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
“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”
Source: On Becoming a Person
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