Whether you call the principle of existence “God,” “matter,” “energy,” or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938.
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.
Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.
Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.
All fanaticism is repressed doubt.
Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.
Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.
Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.
In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.
And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even.
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.