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.
I don’t believe there is a God. I know there is a God.
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.
My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.
What we lack is intensity of life.
When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.
Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.
We want to have certainties and no doubts – results and no experiments – without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.
Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.
The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.
We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
Summoned or not, the god will come.
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance – almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!