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Carl Jung
1958
“The Swiss psychiatrist, in his library in Zurich, agreed with the title of James Thurber’s book, Let Your Mind Alone. ‘But,’ he remarked, ‘unfortunately, your mind is not discreet enough to leave you alone.’
I said I would make an unsatisfactory patient for the psychiatrist because I gained my happiness through my work.
‘Ah,’ he answered, ‘the secret of happiness - those who seek happiness can never find it. You should wait till it comes, like the arrival of a guest later in the evening.’”
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“People should know that not only the neurotic, but everyone, naturally prefers never to seek the causes of any inconvenience in himself, but to push them as far away from himself as possible in space and time. Otherwise he would run the risk of having to make a change for the better. Compared with this odious risk it seems infinitely more advantageous either to put the blame on to somebody else, or, if the fault lies undeniably with oneself, at least to assume that it somehow arose of its own accord in early infancy.” (V7)
Carl Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
