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Robots Are Transforming the Chemistry Lab — One Catalyst at a Time
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Robots Are Transforming the Chemistry Lab — One Catalyst at a Time

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the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day
the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.

the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…

Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.

Carl Jung – “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. And yes you should listen! Because good news should be heard and the link is right here in the show notes.

Today's quote comes from Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology, and one of the most profound explorers of the human mind in the history of science.

The man who gave us the concepts of introversion and extroversion, archetypes, the collective unconscious and perhaps most powerfully, the shadow.

From his work Aion, he wrote:

”No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

Picture a tree. Not a small one, the kind of tree that towers. Ancient. Unmovable. The kind whose canopy spreads wide enough to shelter everything beneath it. Now ask yourself: how does it get that tall? Not by growing only upward. A tree of that height requires roots of equal depth. The taller it reaches toward the light, the further its roots must travel into the dark, into the cold, the wet, the unseen underground where nothing is clean or comfortable.

The roots don't reach the light. They never will. But without them, there is no height. The tree that refuses to root itself in darkness doesn't grow tall. It topples.

Jung spent his entire career mapping the underground. He called it the shadow, the repository for everything we deem unacceptable about ourselves. Not inherently evil, but composed of the traits, emotions, and instincts we suppress to fit into societal norms, family expectations, and our own ideal self-image. The fear we deny. The anger we perform out of. The grief we never fully grieved. The parts of our history we've decided are too dark to acknowledge as our own.
Ignoring this part of ourselves doesn't make it go away. It simply grows stronger in the dark, influencing our behaviour in unconscious ways.

The unacknowledged fear doesn't disappear, it quietly shapes every decision made in its presence. The grief that was never processed doesn't heal, it surfaces sideways, in reactions that seem disproportionate, in patterns that repeat without explanation.

Jung broke with Freud over a single conviction: the unconscious is not just a warehouse of repressed pain, it holds your untapped potential.

That's the radical heart of this quote. The hell is not something to be escaped. It is something to be rooted in. The darkness isn't the enemy of your growth, it is the precondition for it. The goal of integrating the shadow is not to get rid of the dark parts of yourself, but to become aware of, accept, and embrace them. To reclaim the energy that was spent repressing them. Every person who has ever done something genuinely remarkable, built something real, loved deeply, created work that lasts, has roots in difficult ground. The loss that taught them what mattered. The failure that stripped away the superficial. The darkness that forced them to find what was true underneath. The heaven they reached was only possible because of how deep the hell went.

So here's the question: What dark ground are you refusing to root yourself in, what difficulty, what shadow, what part of your own history is there that might be the very thing your growth is waiting for?

Because Jung isn't asking you to live in the hell. He's asking you to root yourself there. To let the difficult, the uncomfortable, the unacknowledged parts of your experience become the foundation rather than the secret. The tree that reaches heaven earned it in the dark. Go deeper. That's where the height comes from.

That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern — I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

Carl Jung – “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
Carl Jung – “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
May 21, 2026
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André Gide – “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
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Michelangelo – “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
May 19, 2026
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Robert Frost – “The only way out is through.”
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Naval Ravikant – “It’s not 10,000 hours. It’s 10,000 iterations.”
May 17, 2026
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky – “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
May 16, 2026
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Dwight D. Eisenhower – “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.”
May 15, 2026
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Lupita Nyong’o – “Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.”
May 14, 2026
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James Clear – “The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”
May 13, 2026
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Laurie Buchanan – “What we don’t change, we choose.”
May 12, 2026
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The Great News Podcast is your source for positive news, inspiring stories, and good news from around the world. We skip the doom and gloom of mainstream media to focus on scientific breakthroughs, environmental wins, and the inspiring news that proves the world is getting better. Join Andrew McGivern for a dose of optimism and uplifting stories that will change your perspective on human progress.
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Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

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Turning Off Bad Genes

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Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

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How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

Until next time… and there will be a next time.

Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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    Carl Jung – “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 21, 2026

    André Gide – “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 20, 2026

    Michelangelo – “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 19, 2026

    Robert Frost – “The only way out is through.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 18, 2026
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    Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
    byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

    The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

    Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

    Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

    Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

    How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

    Turning Off Bad Genes

    How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

    Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

    China’s Gigantic Battery

    How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

    If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

    The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

    For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

    Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

    Until next time… and there will be a next time.

    Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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