Ageing people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding, but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin—and certainly a danger—to be too much occupied with himself; but for the ageing person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.
 Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933). copy citation

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Author Carl Jung
Source Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Topic danger age
Date 1933
Language English
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Note Translated by W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes
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