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.
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.
The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
Even a lie is a psychic fact.
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.
Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.
Dream the dream onward.