In his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Carl Jung wrote as follows:
"... Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook."
This passage was quoted by Basil Hume in To Be a Pilgrim, and I find it gives a lot of food for thought.
In the same book, Cardinal Hume says: "We have to love our neighbour as ourselves... [This] involves not only wishing good things for other people, but helping them to obtain them. It involves action." But what if our neighbour is also on the same track as us, anxious to be as good to us as we are to him? Or to put it another way, who is to mow whose lawn first?
"... Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook."
This passage was quoted by Basil Hume in To Be a Pilgrim, and I find it gives a lot of food for thought.
In the same book, Cardinal Hume says: "We have to love our neighbour as ourselves... [This] involves not only wishing good things for other people, but helping them to obtain them. It involves action." But what if our neighbour is also on the same track as us, anxious to be as good to us as we are to him? Or to put it another way, who is to mow whose lawn first?
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