In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.
The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.
Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.
New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived.
Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.
The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life...