All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
God enters through the wound.
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return.
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.
Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.