"I have always felt that life is like a plant that lives from its roots. Its actual life is invisible, hidden deep in the rhizome. Everything that is visible above the ground only lasts for one summer. Then it withers - an ephemeral phenomenon. When one thinks of the endless formation and passing away of life and cultures, one is filled with the thought of absolute nothingness; however, I have never ceased to feel that something lives and remains beneath the eternal change. What we see: the flower, and that is ephemeral. The rhizome remains.
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Author
Carl Gustav JungAll Translations
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I have always felt that life is like a plant that lives from its roots. Its actual life is invisible, hidden deep in the rhizome. Everything that is visible above the ground only lasts for one summer. Then it withers - an ephemeral phenomenon. When one thinks of the endless formation and passing away of life and cultures, one is filled with the thought of absolute nothingness; however, I have never ceased to feel that something lives and remains beneath the eternal change. What we see: the flower, and that is ephemeral. The rhizome remains.
""Mindig olyannak éreztem az életet, mint egy növényt, amely a gyökértörzséből él. Tulajdonképpeni élete láthatatlan, a rizóma mélyén rejlik. Mindaz, ami a talaj fölött látható, csak egy nyáron át tart. Azután elhervad - efemer jelenség. Ha az ember az élet és a kultúrák véghetetlen kialakulására és elmúlására gondol, az abszolút semmiség gondolata tölti el; én azonban sohasem szűntem meg azt érezni, hogy az örök változás alatt él és megmarad valami. Amit látunk: a virág, az pedig mulandó. A rizóma megmarad."