The self is the soil all your future life grows from.

What it means

Your whole self holds everything you have lived so far. It is also where everything new will come from. Tending it is tending your future.

The source

"The self is the soil all your future life grows from." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"But the self, as an inclusive term embracing our whole living system, contains not only the deposit and the totality of all past life, but it is also a point of departure, the fertile soil from which all future life must spring."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'. Text read at archive.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "The self is the soil all your future life grows from." mean?

Your whole self holds everything you have lived so far. It is also where everything new will come from. Tending it is tending your future.

Who said "The self is the soil all your future life grows from."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'.

What is the original wording?

But the self, as an inclusive term embracing our whole living system, contains not only the deposit and the totality of all past life, but it is also a point of departure, the fertile soil from which all future life must spring (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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