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The Future (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠old and the past is young — both carried in the depths.

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The Future (n.) shapes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us as much as the past: it is sketched in us long in advance and slowly unfolds out of us.

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The Future (n.) grows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠out of me against will and intention: if I want to create the future I work against my future, and if I do not, I fall victim to its laws.

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The Future (n.) depends ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on us at its birth: understand coming events and we reinforce their healing effect; repress them with prejudice and we turn them into poison and destruction.

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The Future (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠ours, Jung wrote: nothing can be changed in the past and little in the present, but the future can raise life to its highest intensity; a little span of youth is ours and the rest belongs to our children.