"A Religous Outlook"

A couple of weeks ago we had a speaker at church who talked about "Finding Your Spiritual Path." She was great. Her name was Dr. Jane Kise. Anyway, she started her talk by reading a quote from Carl Jung. He's a psychologist who believed that people are basically religious.

This is what he said:

"People from all civilized countries on earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients in the second half of life--that is to say, over 35--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 has 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 the religious outlook."

What this tells me is that faith matters. I'm sure I'm hopelessly oversimplifying here tons of studies, articles and psychological principles. But it seems like he's saying...losing your faith leads to despair. Finding it leads to hope again.