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Letter to Fanny Bowditch, 22 October 1916C.G. Jung, Letters, Vol1:1906-1950, Bollingen Series XCV:1, Edited by G. Adler & A. Jaffe, Translated by R.F.C. Hull. page 33. https://jungiancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/letters-of-c-g-jung-vol-1-1906-1950.pdf

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.

— Carl Jung

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes." in the context of "Letter to Fanny Bowditch, 22 October 1916C.G. Jung, Letters, Vol1:1906-1950, Bollingen Series XCV:1, Edited by G. Adler & A. Jaffe, Translated by R.F.C. Hull. page 33. https://jungiancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/letters-of-c-g-jung-vol-1-1906-1950.pdf" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Carl Jung

About Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (IPA: ˈkarl ˈgʊstaf ˈjʊŋ) (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology.