Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
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.
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.
If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your 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.
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The true leader is always led.
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.
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.
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.
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.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.
How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
The healthy man does not torture others.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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