The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
Shame is a soul eating emotion.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.