Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[W]e are in the deepest sense the victims and instruments of cosmogonic "love." I put the word in quotation marks to indicate that I do not use it in its connotations of desiring, preferring, favoring, wishing, and similar feelings, but as something superior to the individual, a unified and undivided whole. Being a part, man cannot grasp the whole. He is at its mercy. He may assent to it or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed within it. He is dependant upon it and is sustained by it. Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see. "Love ceases not" – whether he speaks with the tongues of angels, or with scientific exactitude traces the life of the cell down to its uttermost source. – C.G. Jung
[I]f we possess a grain of wisdom, we will completely surrender to this unknowable who embraces in love all the opposites. Whatever the learned interpretation may be of the sentence "God is love," the words affirm the complexio oppositorum of the Godhead. In my medical experience as well as in my own life, I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love and have never been able to explain what it is.
Like Job, I had to "lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once and I will not answer" (Job 40:4f).
– C.G. Jung
[These quotes appear in Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness, pages 163, 202, and 212.]
NEW ARTICLE by Dr. Bud Harris
This is a transcript of The C.G. Jung Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Jung Society of Washington, D.C. Presented at the Embassy of Switzerland, June 3, 2011,
Individuation: The Promise in Jung's Legacy and Why Our Culture Has Trouble Accepting It