Carl Jung
In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.Collection: Inspirational
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.Collection: Children
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.Collection: Expression
To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.Collection: Real
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.Collection: Thinking
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.Collection: God
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.Collection: Art
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.Collection: Stars
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.Collection: Artist
The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.Collection: Inspiring
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living bodyCollection: Self
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.Collection: Inspirational
Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.Collection: Dream
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.Collection: Fate
I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.Collection: Sea
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.Collection: Might
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.Collection: Personality
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.Collection: Christian
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.Collection: Doe
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.Collection: Distance
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.Collection: Condemnation
If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.Collection: Mind
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.Collection: Reflection
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.Collection: Learning
The true leader is always led.Collection: Leadership
True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.Collection: Art
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.Collection: Inspirational
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.Collection: Self
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Collection: Inspirational
The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.Collection: Psychics
Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.Collection: Heart
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.Collection: Mean
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.Collection: Book
How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?Collection: Darkness
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.Collection: Inspirational
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.Collection: Drama
The healthy man does not torture others.Collection: Men
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.Collection: Animal
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.Collection: Nature
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.Collection: Light
The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.Collection: Real
Simple things are always the most difficult.Collection: Simple
A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.Collection: Self
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.Collection: Sleep
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.Collection: Suffering
The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.Collection: Attitude
Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!Collection: Long
Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.Collection: Dream
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the PsychosesCollection: Emotional