Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.
That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.
Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.
Called or not, God is always there.
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
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