Romantik yazgıcılık sayesinde, aşık olma gereksinmemizin, aslında belli bir kişiye aşık olmaktan önce geldiği yolundaki zor düşünceyi görmezlikten gelmiş oluruz.
It’s the atrophy of instincts caused by living comfortably in a manmade environment, according to Jung, that is “largely responsible for the pathological condition of contemporary culture.” The only hope for “real improvement” is a “radical change of consciousness.”
People today are increasingly defined and valued based on their roles as consumers rather than as active participants in society. As a result, the modern world has become an enormous arena of passive spectators, people detached from their own desires and alienated from authentic social interactions.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
As humans, our limitations are not in our intelligence but in our mindset and perception of experiences. We cannot handle the insoluble issues in life until we acknowledge, redefine or perceive them differently.