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.
Not nature, but the “genius of mankind,” has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.
Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.
Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.
We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
I have always said to my pupils: “Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream.”
Simple things are always the most difficult.
Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.