Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us
I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.
Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?
I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit
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