Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
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.
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.
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
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.
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.
What we lack is intensity of life.
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.
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 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.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
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 totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.
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