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Mysterious, Unknown Things
It is important to have a secret, a premonition of unknown things.
Man must feel that he lives in a world that, in some aspects, is mysterious; in which things happen, and experience that remains inexplicable. Only then is life complete.
To those who can proceed despite the riddles, a way is opened. Surrender to the riddles and that which is absolutely incomprehensible. There are capogiro bridges, suspended on an abyss of perennial depths. But you follow the riddles.
But how many things must happen to a man before he realizes that visible external success, that can be touched with your hand, is a wrong path!
…Give me your hand, almost forgotten, my soul. What a great joy to see you again, o soul that we haven’t known for so long! Life brought me back to you. Let’s give thanks to life because we’ve lived, for all the happy hours and the sad ones, for every joy and every pain. My soul, my journey must continue with you. With you I want to go and rise to my loneliness.
— Jung
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The real food of the soul is metaphor. The whole world of dreams is a metaphorical one. Religion is based on symbol. Art, music, poetry, the whole creative world, “the world of the soul” is based on it.
