Carl Jung
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.Collection: Spiritual
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.Collection: Fullness Of Life
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.Collection: Life
To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.Collection: Views
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.Collection: Acceptance
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.Collection: Dream
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.Collection: Ineptitude
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.Collection: Real
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.Collection: Dream
My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.Collection: Self
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.Collection: Children
Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.Collection: Self
I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!Collection: Adventure
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Collection: Inspirational
The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.Collection: Men
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become importantCollection: Faith
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.Collection: Childhood
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.Collection: Teacher
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.Collection: Spiritual
Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.Collection: Psychics
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.Collection: Inspirational
My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.Collection: Light
Intuition (is) perception via the unconsciousCollection: Perception
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.Collection: Men
In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.Collection: Religious
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.Collection: Evil
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!Collection: Giving Up
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.Collection: Psychology
Only the wounded physician heals.Collection: Wisdom
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.Collection: Men
Everyone is in love with his own ideasCollection: Ideas