Quote of the day by Franz Kafka: ‘There are some things one can achieve only by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction’

Franz Kafka | Anniversary of the author’s death – 3 June 1924 A chess player abandons a winning-looking attack because the position demands a retreat. A scientist abandons a familiar theory after years of defending it. A person leaves a secure career to pursue a path that seems, from the outside, like a step backward. […]

What is coincidence? Quote of the day by Carl Jung: ‘We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post’

Quote of the day by Carl Jung on coincidence and synchronicity, and why one can see the future in dreams. Carl Jung introduced the concept of synchronicity, which means that not everything is a coincidence. The concept says that when several things happen by chance, which we think are just by coincidence, are not actually […]