Red Book Quotes

“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

“The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.”
― Carl Jung

“Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.”
― Carl Jung

“This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds.
Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264”
― Carl Gustv Jung

“Why are we talking about moving to Orodism Island? The goal is to create a new civilization of people who love existence, humanity and freedom.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“We make the biggest mistakes when we think we have nothing to lose.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking for help. Do you believe help will come from outside? What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”
― Carl Jung

“Only in the desert do we become aware of our terrible simple-mindedness, but we are afraid of admitting it.”
― Carl Jung

“Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.”
― Carl Jung

“We cannot slay our incapacity and rise above it, but that is precisely what we wanted. Incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it or shout it down.”
― Carl Jung

“Do not throw yourself against what has become, enraged or bent on destruction. What will you put in its place? Do you not know that if you are successful in destroying what has become, you will then turn the will of destruction against yourself? But anyone who makes destruction their goal will perish through self-destruction. Much rather respect what has become, since reverence is a blessing.”
― Carl Jung

“What is the difference between a desert and a land where humanity is dead.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“If a God ceases being the way of life, he must fall secretly.”
― Carl Jung

“No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.”
― Carl Jung

“You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.”
― Carl Jung

“Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.”
― Carl Jung

“Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language.”
― C.G. Jung

“We have to move to Orodism Island. Now where is the Orodism Island ?
It is a place to escape from bonds and thousands of years of slavery. Orodism Island is the rebirth of simplicity and release of people from the swamp they made themselves.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“To understand a thing is a bridge and possibility of returning to the path. But to explain a matter is arbitrary and sometimes even murder. Have you counted the murderers among the scholars?”
― Carl Jung

“We should be proud to be pioneers, not to living in the distant past.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“When there is humanity, the abuse of others disappears.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“When people are alone, they seem to be asleep, their awakening can be seen only when they are standing in a group of one heart.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“We must weep for a country whose wise men are isolated.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“We must weep for a land whose intellectuals always repeat the words of greedy rulers.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“When we try to hold everything by force, our hands are emptier than ever.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“When we deny the forces within us, anxiety comes to us.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“You will not be seen as long as you speak of your superiority.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“When you become a sea, your face and cheek will not be wounded by grabbing of others.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“What memory has left from bad thinkers? None.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg

“We must always keep the lights of the feast burning.”
― The Philosopher Orod Bozorg