Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.
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.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
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.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
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.
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
One must be able to let things happen.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.
The true leader is always led.
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
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.
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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