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The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 QUOTES

The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 QUOTES

1 " But what is passion, what are emotions? There is the source of fire, there is the fullness of energy. A man who is not on fire is nothing: he is ridiculous, he is two-dimensional. He must be on fire even if he does make a fool of himself. A flame must burn somewhere, otherwise no light shines; there is no warmth, nothing. "

― C.G. Jung , The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

2 " Oh yes, you can make the most marvelous drawings and you are nowhere at all. Particularly artists. Anybody can make drawings, even little children, and it means precious little. You see, the drawing must be an expression of a fact, of a psychological experience, and you must know that it is such an expression, you must be conscious of it. Otherwise you might just as well be a fish in the water or a tree in the woods. For every plant makes marvelous mandalas. A composite flower is a mandala, it is an image of the sun, but the flower does not know it. The human eye is a mandala, but we are not conscious of it. So it requires long and painstaking work in analysis to get people to the point where they become conscious of the impersonal [non-ego] character of the [or their] problem. "

― C.G. Jung , The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

3 " Thus Jung’s interest, in contrast with Dasgupta’s, were with yoga not as “philosophy and religion” but as psychology. Hence his definition of yoga was a psychological one: “Yoga was originally a natural process of introversion. . . . Such introversions lead to characteristic inner processes of personality changes. In the course of several thousand years these introversions became gradually organized as methods, and along widely differing ways.”44 Jung’s concern was not primarily with the canonical and organized methods and teachings of yoga but with the putative natural processes of introversion that originally underlay them. "

― C.G. Jung , The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

4 " we can form an objective judgment of the nation, race, or continent to which we belong only when we have lived for a time in a foreign country and so are able to look at our own country from without. How, "

― C.G. Jung , The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

5 " Mircea Eliade stated that for yoga and Sākhya philosophy to which it is related, in contrast to other Indian schools of thought, “the world is real (not illusory—as it is, for example, for Vedānta). Nevertheless, if the world exists and endures, it is because of the ‘ignorance’ of spirit.”16 What distinguishes yoga is its essentially practical cast. "

― C.G. Jung , The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932