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.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.
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.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
The sure path can only lead to death.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.
Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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!
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