Friday, December 28, 2007
Carl Jung on Retrieving the Soul
As a pathologist, my professional reading does not often involve the spirit or mind! It was delightful to come across this quote on a message board from First Things (I still highly recommend the magazine to thinking Christians.)
"Among all my patients in the second half of my life - that is to say, over thirty five- there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook "
Carl Jung, "Retrieving the Soul."
"Among all my patients in the second half of my life - that is to say, over thirty five- there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook "
Carl Jung, "Retrieving the Soul."
