Knowledge in a Nutshell Quotes

“Our shadow is the pain we’ve forgotten about. It is a complex within us, a split-off part of our consciousness loaded with emotional weight. Our persona is what we most want to be seen to be; shadow is what we least want to be.”
― Gary Bobroff, Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung: The complete guide to the great psychoanalyst, including the unconscious, archetypes and the self

“Jung never tired of saying this. After the past is explored, additional inquiry into yesterday does not lead to further healing. A change of attitude into the present does, and this change of attitude is exactly the business of a synchronicity.”
― Gary Bobroff, Knowledge In A Nutshell Carl Jung

“Whenever a civilization reaches its highest point, sooner or later a period of decay sets in. But the apparently meaningless and hopeless collapse into a disorder without aim or purpose, which fills the onlooker with disgust and despair, nevertheless contains within its darkness the germ of a new light.91”
― Gary Bobroff, Knowledge In A Nutshell Carl Jung

“the recognition of our shadow. ‘The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
― Gary Bobroff, Knowledge In A Nutshell Carl Jung

“As with Jekyll and Hyde, the shadow is our inner hostile sibling and represents what we are missing, and in that way it naturally affects our relationship to our own gender. What we admire or dislike in other men or women often reflects our own hidden face. That rejected part of ourselves is most often first encountered through projecting it onto others.”
― Gary Bobroff, Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung: The complete guide to the great psychoanalyst, including the unconscious, archetypes and the self

“The world hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man… We are the great danger.’ For those interested engaging with Answer to Job and Edinger’s in-depth interpretations, The Creation of Consciousness and The Transformation of the God-Image are required reading.”
― Gary Bobroff, Knowledge In A Nutshell Carl Jung

“Jung’s Introverted character is a combination of getting energized from the inner world or downtime, reflective understanding (sagaciousness) and an inherent orientation towards personal growth. Jung’s Extravert is a combination of getting energized from social interaction, an approach that moves directly towards the objects of the outer world and an orientation towards society and collective values. Those broadly defined associations are proven insufficient as soon as we meet a quiet surfer whose energy moves to meet the objects of the world head-on, or a reserved person who is neither sagacious nor identifies with collective values.”
― Gary Bobroff, Knowledge In A Nutshell Carl Jung